Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (147 page)
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Authors: Gordon S. Wood
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and judicial review,
440
–42,
442
–47
and jurisdictional issues,
419
and libel cases,
257
n45
original appointments,
412
and partisanship,
413
–14,
453
and presidential oath of office,
64
n35
and the Republican Party,
421
and the supremacy clause,
415
and Washington presidency,
81
USS
Niagara
,
685
USS
Philadelphia
,
637
USS
President
,
681
USS
United States
,
681
USS
William D. Lawrence
,
685
utopianism,
7
,
150
,
301
,
475
,
582
,
601
Van Buren, Martin,
721
Van Rensselaer, Solomon,
334
Van Rensselaer, Stephen,
680
Vancouver, George,
376
–77
Varnum, James Mitchell,
119
Varnum, Joseph,
669
Vattel, Emmerich de,
124
Venezuela,
534
Vermont: and abolitionism,
519
Council of Censors,
18
demographics,
341
and the 1800 election,
283
and judiciary,
401
–2
and presidential elections,
210
and roads,
482
and separatist movements,
115
and statehood,
701
and the War of 1812,
661
Versailles court,
5
–6
“Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America” (Berkeley),
546
veterans,
108
The Vicar of Wakefield
(Goldsmith),
498
–99
vice-admiralty courts,
640
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
(Wollstonecraft),
500
Virginia: and agriculture,
165
and banking,
295
and the Bill of Rights,
71
and bills of rights,
67
capitol,
558
–59
and corporate charters,
464
and the 1800 election,
284
–85
and electoral representation,
530
and the First Congress,
57
and freed slaves,
538
and judicial review,
443
and judiciary,
402
and Madison,
148
and North-South tensions,
145
and nullification,
270
–71
and penal reform,
494
and political power,
153
and population growth,
164
and public education,
473
and religion,
578
,
586
,
588
and roads,
482
and separatist movements,
115
and slavery,
165
,
231
,
509
–13,
514
,
518
,
520
,
522
,
524
,
526
–27,
534
–38,
733
–34,
738
and state debts,
141
state motto,
27
and suffrage,
330
Virginia Assembly,
31
Virginia Company,
460
Virginia Council of State,
60
Virginia Court of Appeals,
455
,
459
Virginia Declaration of Rights,
66
Virginia Resolution,
270
,
427
,
447
Virginian Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge,
473
Vision of Columbus
(Barlow),
554
Volney, Constantin-François,
260
,
394
,
552
,
579
,
720
–21
Voltaire,
178
voluntary associations,
485
–90.
See also
civil society
voting: and freed blacks,
521
and the Jefferson presidency,
302
and suffrage expansions,
302
–5
and voter turnout,
160
,
302
and voting rights,
542
and western settlement,
363
and women,
505
–6,
507
Wales,
328
War of 1812: and American industry,
703
and American manufacturing,
705
and the Barbary States,
696
–700
and the burning of Washington,
690
–91
and Canada,
676
–80,
678
,
683
–84,
688
–90
declaration of,
659
–62
and domestic trade,
708
and embargoes,
649
–58,
657
n104,
662
,
664
–65,
670
,
676
,
689
,
693
–94,
698
and the Enlightenment,
735
and European influence,
2
and the federal judiciary,
455
and the Great Lakes,
684
–86
and impressment conflict,
643
and Madison,
662
–64,
682
–83
major campaigns,
678
and Marshall,
438
and nationalism,
4
,
696
–700
and Native Americans,
131
,
675
–76,
686
–87
and naval engagements,
680
–82,
684
–86
and the Northwest,
382
and political fallout,
691
–92,
692
–96
and republican principles,
670
–74
and trade negotiations,
664
–70
and the Treaty of Fort Jackson,
688
Ware, Henry,
603
Ware v. Hylton
,
415
Warren, James,
213
Washington, Bushrod,
413
,
447
,
565
–66
Washington, D.C.,
289
–91,
558
,
685
,
690
–91,
698
Washington, George: and alcohol,
340
and American exceptionalism,
44
and the
arts,
554
,
562
,
567
biographies,
565
–66
and Burr,
282
and class divisions,
23
on common language,
49
and congressional etiquette,
63
–64
death of,
305
on Democratic-Republican Societies,
203
and diplomacy,
205
,
240
and executive power,
73
,
85
–89,
140
,
197
and the federal judiciary,
411
,
414
and federal patronage,
107
,
108
–10
and the First Congress,
57
–58
and Freemasonry,
51
,
477
and the French Revolution,
175
and the French wars,
182
and Genet,
187
,
188
n38
and Hamilton,
89
–94
inauguration,
62
,
64
–65,
65
–72,
75
,
83
,
288
and international commerce,
192
,
197
–98,
198
–99
and Jefferson-Hamilton conflict,
154
,
155
and Marshall,
434
,
435
and the Mazzei letter,
235
–36
and military power,
264
,
266
–67
and monarchical power,
1
,
53
,
74
–85
and nationalism,
104
–5
and Native American policy,
126
,
128
,
129
,
130
–31
and the Nootka Sound controversy,
366
–67
and North Africa,
635
and partisanship,
152
and personal finances,
234
popularity of,
188
–89
portrait of,
691
and public debt,
97
,
453
–54
and public service,
25
–26
reelection of,
157
–58
and religion,
577
,
583
–85
and republicanism,
14
retirement of,
206
–8,
274
and the Revolutionary War,
699
and the sciences,
544
and sectional conflict,
165
and Sedition Acts,
257
on self-interest,
20
and Shays’s Rebellion,
111
and slavery,
231
,
511
,
513
,
517
,
524
,
525
,
536
and social changes,
353
–54
and social stratification,
24
and western settlement,
114
,
116
,
120
–21
and the Whiskey Rebellion,
137
–38,
138
–39
Washington Benevolent Societies,
306
Washington Trust,
296
Watson, Elkanah,
325
–26
Watts, Mary,
77
The Way to Wealth
(Franklin),
713
Wayles, John,
514
Wayne, Anthony,
130
–31,
133
,
200
,
362
Wea Indians,
123
The Wealth of Nations
(Smith),
24
,
230
–31,
716
weather,
387
–94
Webster, Daniel,
466
Webster, Noah: and
Age of Reason
,
200
and civil society,
487
and class divisions,
24
,
709
and decline of Federalists,
276
and Democratic-Republican Societies,
203
and education,
476
and market competition,
325
and popular culture,
731
and public education,
473
and religion,
590
and suffrage expansions,
303
–4
and urban renewal,
390