John Breckinridge: Jeffersonian Republican

Cunningham, Noble E.; Harrison, Lowell H.

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“…At the same time, he sided with Federalists on financial and apportionment questions. 5 In 1793, he passed the South Carolina bar. A scant year later, more or less at the same moment that John Jay decided to abandon the Supreme Court in frustration and disgust, Johnson married Sarah Bennett, the sister of Thomas Bennett, a future governor of South Carolina.…”

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“…By age 30, Johnson boasted several terms as a state legislator (one as its presiding officer), a budding law practice, prestigious academic connections (he was a founder, for example, of the University of South Carolina), and legislative nomination at an astonishingly young age to the Court of Common Pleas, or Constitutional Court, where he supported governmental intervention in the ongoing project of economic growth and market integration. 6 Why such attention to circumstance? As Oliver Wendell Holmes once said in a long, contemplative essay about John Marshall, "It is most idle to take a man apart from the circumstances which, in fact, were his.…”

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In Defense of "Public Reason": Supreme Court Justice William Johnson

VanBurkleo

2007

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For those of us who gravitate toward rebels and upstarts, Supreme Court Justice William Johnson has uncommon appeal, if only because he was the first member of the federal Bench to kick up his heels in a sustained, effective, and deliberate way. In 1954, Johnson's only biographer, Donald Morgan, proclaimed him “the first dissenter,”1 a force for democratization in the style of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, the man who persuaded Chief Justice John Marshall to compromise on the question of unitary opinions and institutionalize (if not applaud) publication of concurring or dissenting departures from the majority's official reasoning.

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In Defense of "Public Reason": Supreme Court Justice William Johnson

VanBurkleo

2007

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Connecting the President and the People: Washington's Neutrality, Genet's Challenge, and Hamilton's Fight for Public Support

Young¹

2011

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As the French Revolution intensified with the execution of King Louis XVI in 1793, so did the American public's interest in foreign affairs. Since President George Washington seized the initiative in foreign affairs (rather than Congress, as was expected by many at the time), the executive became the focal point of the developing relationship between the American public and the newly established federal government. The events centered on the Washington administration and the French Minister, Edmond Genet, placed the office of president of the United States squarely at the intersection of foreign affairs and popular politics. By focusing on the political activity that swirled around President George Washington's controversial proclamation of neutrality, this essay examines how Federalists, especially the administration's own Alexander Hamilton, tried to shape the public's understanding of the proclamation. When Washington thrust his administration into the burgeoning foreign crisis, the president put himself and the executive office at the center of the public debate. By looking at newspaper essays, community resolutions, presidential replies, and the Gideon Henfield trial and verdict, this essay argues that the Washington administration experienced the power of public opinion as an advantageous political force as well as an obstacle to its policy of neutrality. Washington's proclamation of neutrality, which injected executive authority into the realm of foreign affairs at a time when the American public was intensely interested in foreign events, contributed to the developing relationship between the American people and the newly established executive office.

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“Mississippi Mad”: The Democratic Society of Kentucky and the Sectional Politics of Navigation Rights

Orihel¹

2016

Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

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John Breckinridge: Jeffersonian Republican

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In Defense of "Public Reason": Supreme Court Justice William Johnson

In Defense of "Public Reason": Supreme Court Justice William Johnson

Connecting the President and the People: Washington's Neutrality, Genet's Challenge, and Hamilton's Fight for Public Support

“Mississippi Mad”: The Democratic Society of Kentucky and the Sectional Politics of Navigation Rights

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