Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power by Jeremy D. Bailey

By Jeremy D. Bailey

This ebook examines Thomas Jefferson's try and mix appreciate for a basic structure with the truth that no set of legislation can foresee each occasion. His method to this challenge bargains a democratic, but powerful, replacement to the extra universal, Hamiltonian answer. Jefferson students have lengthy written of 'two Jeffersons,' one sooner than he turned president and one after he grew to become president. the 1st used to be against a robust government, whereas the second one embraced one out of necessity. This booklet demanding situations this account. It provides Jefferson's figuring out of govt energy, which, even though it constructed over the years, pointed to an government that was once either democratic and strong.

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PTJ, 1:360. 16 More than others, Jefferson worried about the possibility that the people would reestablish the monarchy or call for one of their own. Jefferson summarized such fears to the president of the Virginia convention, Edmund Pendleton: “Should we not have in contemplation and prepare for an event (however deprecated) which may happen in the possibility of things; I mean a re-acknolegement of the British tyrant as our king, and previously strip him of every prejudicial possession? Remember how universally the people run into the idea of recalling Charles the 2.

Jefferson’s advocacy for the bill of rights was thus one step in his long-standing project to make declarations practical, and his call for a two-term limit for presidents was meant to connect such declarations to routine democratic change. More than any of his contemporaries, he perceived the democratic potential of a popularly elected president. 72 On education see, Zuckert, Natural Rights Republic, 220–32; Matthews, Radical Politics of Jefferson, 81–84; Sheldon, Political Philosophy of Jefferson, 53–82; and Yarbrough, American Virtues, 125–32.

Rather than offering one of several constitutional arguments that were then available to him, Jefferson presented his extraconstitutional explanation elsewhere. Jefferson never recommended an amendment, because the Twelfth Amendment took precedence over a Louisiana amendment. The urgency was political and philosophic: Republicans needed to fix the Electoral College to ensure that the election of 1804 would not be manipulated by Federalists, and Jefferson used the Amendment to further connect the presidency to public opinion 73 74 Jefferson to James Sullivan, 9 February 1797, PTJ, 29:289.

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