1. GHIST 225: US History Kevin R. Hardwick Spring 2012 LECTURE 13 Visions for America in the 1790s

2. I. Agrarian Republicanism: The Vision of Jefferson and Madison II. Commercial Liberalism and the Hamiltonian Program: The Vision of the Federalists a)Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of Treasury, 1789 b)Report on Public Credit, January 1790 c)Report on National Bank, December 1790

3. ________________________________________________________________ 1787: Philadelphia Convention 1788: US Constitution Ratified 1789: George Washington Elected President; organization of U.S. government 1790-1791: Hamilton’s Reports 1794: Whiskey Rebellion

4. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue."

5. James Madison: “The uncivilized will, by a communication with the civilized, lose their ignorance and barbarism. They will learn industry from the industrious, virtue from the virtuous, loyalty from the loyal; and thereby become useful members of society.”

6. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia: “The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.”

7. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia: “It is to the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.”

8. James Wilson, “Of Man, as a Member of Society,” Lectures on Law, 1791: “These varieties of taste and character induce different persons to choose different professions and employments in life: these varieties render mankind mutually beneficial to each other.”

9. Alexander Hamilton, “Report on Manufactures”: “the intimate connexion of interest, which subsists between all the parts of a Society united under the same government--the infinite variety of channels which serve to Circulate the prosperity of each to and through the rest.”

10. Alexander Hamilton, “Report on Manufactures”: “When all the different kinds of industry obtain in a community, each individual can find his proper element, and can call into activity the whole vigour of his nature. And the community is benefitted by the services of its respective members, in the manner, in which each can serve it with most effect.”