Thomas Jefferson’s Image of New England: Nationalism Versus by Arthur Scherr

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By Arthur Scherr

Writers usually depict Thomas Jefferson as a narrow-minded defender of states’ rights and Virginia’s pursuits, regardless of his authorship of the assertion of Independence and lively safety of the younger republic’s sovereignty. a few historians declare he was once fairly opposed to the hot England states, whose Federalist citizens he considered as enemies of his Democratic-Republican Party.
This examine of Jefferson's lifelong dating with New England unearths him to be a constant nationalist and buddy of the quarter, from his first stopover at to Boston in 1784 to his recruiting of Massachusetts students to educate on the collage of Virginia. His nationalist perspective is most obvious the place a few historians declare to determine it least: in his reviews of the folks and politics of latest England. He favourite New Englanders' progressive patriotism, in particular that of his pal John Adams, and thought of their direct democracy and town-meeting traditions a version for the remainder of the Union.

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