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Additional Class Topics
For Further Interest: Additional Class Topics
Chapter 10:
Launching the New Ship of State, 1789 - 1800
- Focus on the components of Washingtons
image as the central symbol of republican government and virtue: heroism,
integrity, nonpartisanship, reluctance to hold power.
- Compare the American political dilemmas
presented by the French Revolution with those in the twentieth century caused
by the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian revolutions.
- Was George Washington uniquely suited
to be a successful first President under the Constitution? How might the United
States be different if Alexander Hamilton were the first President? Thomas
Jefferson? Benjamin Franklin? Consider political ideas, economic issues, and
foreign policy.
- What other times in American history has
liberty been attacked? What situation or conditions would merit restrictions
on liberty? Would they be Constitutional?
- Discuss the Alien and Sedition Acts as
threats to liberty. Consider especially their relation to the new, fragile
Bill of Rights.
- Consider whether the Hamilton-Jefferson
conflict was just a normal political disagreement like those
between later American political parties or whether it was a more profound
ideological disagreement that really threatened to destroy the new government.
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