Republicanism and the Idea of Party in the Jacksonian Period

Wilson, Major L.

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“…The discontinuity between veto frequency in the early republic and in later periods is explicable by reference to changing norms and ideational developments. As numerous historians and political scientists have observed, the political culture—including norms guiding executive behavior—underwent a radical transformation with the ascension of Andrew Jackson to the presidential chair (Kruman ; Leonard ; McCormick ; Skowronek ; Wilson ). Put differently, although the constitutional norms account is flawed, and although the veto bargaining explanation is analytically plausible, a more rigorous norms‐based account explains why the early presidents were hesitant to use the veto and why many later presidents, beginning with Jackson, were not.…”

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Vetoes in the Early Republic: A Defense of Norms

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The first six presidents (1789–1829) vetoed bills far less frequently than their successors. Previous literature affords two competing explanations for this phenomenon. The constitutional norms approach contends that the early presidents used the veto only to reject unconstitutional legislation. The veto bargaining approach argues that the early presidents vetoed fewer bills because the electoral conditions under which vetoes typically occur had yet to emerge. This article accepts some of the insights of the veto bargaining approach, but defends a corrected version of the norms account. This account says the early presidents vetoed fewer bills because they were constrained by a norm according to which “adversarial” vetoes were considered illegitimate. The emergence of the modern veto required discursive legitimation of vetoes for adversarial purposes.

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Vetoes in the Early Republic: A Defense of Norms

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“…For years, party members had decried the subversive alliance of government, placemen and political speculators. 17 And during the 1840 campaign they predicted that the Democrats would not 'tamely surrender their ill-gotten and long abused power ... By means of the National Treasury and countless officers in the service of the Downloaded by [Nanyang Technological University] at 08:02 05 June 2016 Administration, a standing army is raised and quartered in every corner of the country, and the watchword conveyed with the utmost secrecy and dispatch from the highest chieftain to the lowest vassal.' With wish parenting the thought, Whigs spoke and wrote glowingly after William Henry Harrison's election of 'a new generation of voters...unintimidated by the oligarchy of office holders...who have overthrown the Democrat Foco administration of misrule.'…”

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