... of todays United States. He was also the 1st president under the Constitution. George Washington and the Federalists had a strong belief in this political philosophy, where the national government would have enough power in order to be respected and also feared in the U.S. With respect and fear came ... developing argument over Free states and slave states, the second was the expanding economic development and territorial expansion which made new demands on the political system that questioned the role of the government in economic affairs. Henry Clay, a strong advocate of the "shift in ...

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... age, but it never went further than the Continental Congress politely asking for its removal. The founding fathers were too assumed in their own political expediency to fight any more. They knew slavery was wrong but as James Madison wrote in 1787, "Great as the evil of slavery is ... able to wipe free speech they could eventually deny other god given rights declared by the constitution. He might even lose his own political party. The sedition acts fared against the priceless freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Jefferson sought to fight back against this but ... Resolutions. They ...

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... by becoming elected as the President and then ordered an expedition to be led by Lewis and explore the vast boundaries of American that yet were not discovered. Thomas Jefferson, envisioned a nation wherein a man of ordinary circumstances could rise to great political power on the basis of talent, without regard to parentage or landholdings. Another dream of Thomas Jefferson, which he is ... ...

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