Start Date
18-3-2025 12:45 PM
End Date
18-3-2025 2:00 PM
Level of Education
Faculty
Keywords
republicanism, political parties, executive authority, majoritarian, conservative, internationalism, expansionism, democratic ideology, Aristotle, National Bank, Alien and Sedition Acts, partisanship, foreign policy, domestic policy
Abstract
As a liberal Anti-Federalist, Thomas Jefferson employed a unique approach to republicanism, influencing his successors toward majoritarian conservative internationalism and the expansion of democratic ideology throughout the world. In this paper, Jefferson’s republicanism will be explored through evidence based on historical events and literature proving effective in the debate over state-federal power distribution during the US Constitution ratification era and considerations within the Bill of Rights. The proposition of a national bank, the influence of the Alien and Sedition Acts, the political split between the Federalists and Democratic Republicans, and the effects of the 12th Amendment on the elections of future presidential teams are also surveyed. Additionally, the Jeffersonian Solution to the Republican Paradox and the President’s majoritarian conservative foreign and domestic policies will be broached. Based upon a framework of bicameral political party power theory at the federal level of US government, this paper serves as an analytical narration developed to identify and categorize Jefferson’s specific political ideology and classification as a Majoritarian Conservative Internationalist and Expansionist.
Jeffersonian Republicanism: Majoritarian Conservative Internationalism and Expansionism
As a liberal Anti-Federalist, Thomas Jefferson employed a unique approach to republicanism, influencing his successors toward majoritarian conservative internationalism and the expansion of democratic ideology throughout the world. In this paper, Jefferson’s republicanism will be explored through evidence based on historical events and literature proving effective in the debate over state-federal power distribution during the US Constitution ratification era and considerations within the Bill of Rights. The proposition of a national bank, the influence of the Alien and Sedition Acts, the political split between the Federalists and Democratic Republicans, and the effects of the 12th Amendment on the elections of future presidential teams are also surveyed. Additionally, the Jeffersonian Solution to the Republican Paradox and the President’s majoritarian conservative foreign and domestic policies will be broached. Based upon a framework of bicameral political party power theory at the federal level of US government, this paper serves as an analytical narration developed to identify and categorize Jefferson’s specific political ideology and classification as a Majoritarian Conservative Internationalist and Expansionist.
