Jefferson and executive power: Revisionism and the "revolution of 1800"

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Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 7-25

  Schmitt, Gary J ^a  

^a President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board ^*  (United States)

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EID: 34248322166     PISSN: 00485950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037645     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Thomas Jefferson, Writings, 10 vols., ed. Paul L. Ford (N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s, 1892-1899), vol. 6, p. 338.
2. Forrest McDonald, The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1976), pp. 20-33.
3. Thomas Jefferson, Writings, vol. 1, p. 160.
4. The Adams-Jefferson Letters, 2 vols., ed. L. J. Cappon (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959), vol. 2, p. 332.
5. Thomas Jefferson, Writings, vol. 9, p. 296. Jefferson is recounting his conversation with Adams more than a decade later, in 1811.
6. James P. Ceaser, Presidential Selection (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979), p. 89.
7. Robert M. Johnstone, Jr., Jefferson and the Presidency (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1978), pp. 58-59.
8. James P. Ceaser, Selection, pp. 103-121.
9. Edward S. Corwin, The President: Office and Powers (rev. ed.; New York: New York University Press, 1984), p. 18.
10. Alexander Hamilton, Works, 12 vols., ed. Henry C. Lodge (N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s, 1904), vol. 10, p. 413.
11. Merril D. Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation (N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1970), pp. 166.
12. John S. Pancake, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton (Woodbury, N.Y.: Barron’s, 1974), pp. 79.
13. Charles C. Thach, Jr., The Creation of the Presidency: 1775-1789 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1929), pp. 49-52.
14. Thomas Jefferson, Writings, vol. 3, p. 223.
15. As John Jay wrote to Jefferson in 1787, “Those inconveniences arise, not from personal disqualifications, but from the nature and construction of government." The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, 3 vols., ed. Henry P. Johnston (N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s, 1890-1893), vol. 3, p. 223.
16. Charles C. Thach, Creation, pp. 55-75.
17. Louis Fisher, President and Congress (N.Y.: Free Press, 1972), p. 263.
18. Thomas Jefferson, Papers, 20 vols., ed. Julian P. Boyd (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1954-in progress), vol. 10, p. 603.
19. Abraham Sofaer, War, Foreign Affairs and Constitutional Power: The Origins (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1976), pp. 81-82.
20. Robert M. Johnstone Jeffferson, p. 62.
21. Thomas Jefferson, Writings, vol. 1, p. 294.
22. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers, ed. Clinton Rossiter (N.Y.: New American Library, 1961), no. 75, p. 45.
23. Thomas Jefferson, Anas, ed. F. B. Sawvel (N.Y.: Round Tables Press, 1903), pp. 108-111.
24. Thomas Jefferson, Writings, vol. 5, p. 161-162.
25. Dumas Malone, Jefferson the President: First Term (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970).
26. Leonard D. White, The Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History (N.Y.: Mac- millan, 1951), p. 30.
27. Jefferson took a similar line with regard to military action against Morocco in 1802—again, against the stated position of his Cabinet. Sofaer, War, pp. 221-224.
28. Thomas Jefferson, Writings, vol. 8, p. 224.
29. Dumas Malone, First Term, pp. 314-315.
30. Thomas Jefferson, Writings, vol. 9, p. 201. "By weakening the presidential office in comparison with the original constitutional design and certainly in comparison with the status it held under Washington and Adams, the Republicans had brought about the situation in which energy, if it were to come from the executive, would have to rely on a non-institutional source." Ceaser, Selection, p. 102.