The Democratic Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) Principles, Articles, and Regulations 30 May 1793 - Lance Banning, Liberty and Order: The First American Party Struggle [1787]
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- Preface
- Part 1: Apprehensions
- The Anti-federalists
- Letters From the Federal Farmer, No. 7 31 December 1787
- “brutus,” Essay Ii 1 November 1787
- Amendments Recommended By the Several State Conventions
- Amendments Proposed By the Virginia Convention 27 June 1788
- Ratification of the State of New York 26 July 1788
- Federalist Concerns
- James Madison to George Washington New York, 11 August 1788
- Madison to Washington New York, 24 August 1788
- James Madison to Thomas Jefferson 21 September 1788
- Madison to Jefferson 8 December 1788
- The Bill of Rights
- Proceedings In the House of Representatives 8 June 1789
- Proceedings In the House of Representatives 13 August 1789
- Apprehensions Unallayed
- “pacificus” to James Madison
- Popular Instruction of Representatives 15 August 1789
- Titles
- Part 2: The Leadership Divides
- Funding and Assumption
- Alexander Hamilton the First Report On Public Credit 14 January 1790
- Debates In the House of Representatives On the First Report On Public Credit 9–18 February 1790
- Thomas Jefferson Memorandum On the Compromise of 1790
- Opposition Out of Doors
- Virginia’s Remonstrance Against the Assumption of State Debts 16 December 1790
- The Constitution and the National Bank
- Alexander Hamilton Notes On the Advantages of a National Bank 27 March 1791
- James Madison’s Speech On the Bank Bill 2 February 1791
- Thomas Jefferson Opinion On the Constitutionality of a National Bank 15 February 1791
- Alexander Hamilton Opinion On the Constitutionality of a National Bank 15 February 1791
- James Madison to Thomas Jefferson On Speculative Excess Summer 1791
- Commerce and Manufactures
- Thomas Jefferson Notes On the State of Virginia 1785
- Jefferson and Madison On Republican Political Economy
- James Madison Speech In the House of Representatives On Commercial Retaliation and Discrimination 25 April 1789
- Congressional Proceedings On Commercial Discrimination 1789
- Alexander Hamilton Report On the Subject of Manufactures 5 December 1791
- The Collision
- James Madison Essays For the National Gazette 1792
- William Branch Giles Speech In the House of Representatives On the Apportionment Bill 9 April 1792
- Letters of Fisher Ames to George Richards Minot 1791–1792
- Philip Freneau “rules For Changing a Limited Republican Government Into an Unlimited Hereditary One” 4 and 7 July 1792
- Alexander Hamilton to Edward Carrington 26 May 1792
- An Administration Divided
- James Madison Further Essays For the National Gazette
- Part III. The French Revolution and the People
- Neutrality
- “an Old French Soldier” (philadelphia) General Advertiser 27 August 1793
- Alexander Hamilton “pacificus,” No. 1 29 June 1793
- James Madison “helvidius,” No. 1 24 August 1793
- James Madison “helvidius,” No. 4 14 September 1793
- Commerce and Seizures
- William Loughton Smith Speech In the House of Representatives 13 January 1794
- James Madison Speech In the House of Representatives 14 January 1794
- James Madison “political Observations” 20 April 1795
- The Popular Societies, the Excise, and the Whiskey Rebellion
- The Democratic Society of Pennsylvania (philadelphia) Principles, Articles, and Regulations 30 May 1793
- Condemnations, Defenses, and Society Attacks On the Excise
- The Rebellion
- “self-created Societies”
- Alexander Hamilton the “camillus” Essays 22 July 1795–9 January 1796
- House Debates On Implementing Jay’s Treaty 1796
- Washington’s Farewell Address 19 September 1796
- Part 4: Liberty and Order
- The Black Cockade Fever
- Philadelphia, 1798
- Addresses to the President, With His Replies April–august 1798
- The Sedition Act 14 July 1798
- Popular Protest
- “advertisement Extraordinary!!!” (philadelphia) Aurora 14 July 1798
- The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
- Thomas Jefferson Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions October 1798
- James Madison the Virginia Resolutions 21 December 1798
- State Replies to the Resolutions
- Congressional Report Defending the Alien and Sedition Laws 21 February 1799
- James Madison the Report of 1800
- The Jeffersonian Program
- Thomas Jefferson the First Inaugural Address 4 March 1801
- Thomas Jefferson First Annual Message 8 December 1801
- The Jeffersonian Vision
- Letters of the President 1799–1802
- Edmund Pendleton “the Danger Not Over” 5 October 1801
- Fisher Ames “falkland,” No. 2 6 February 1801
- Repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801
- Congressional Proceedings
- Editorials On the Repeal “a Friend of the Constitution” [william Cranch], No. 1 Washington Federalist 7 December 1801
- The Impeachment of Samuel Chase, 1804–1805
- Albert Gallatin Report On Internal Improvements 4 April 1808
- The Louisiana Purchase
- Thomas Jefferson to Robert R. Livingston 18 April 1802
- Thomas Jefferson to John C. Breckinridge 12 August 1803
- Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas 7 September 1803
- [alexander Hamilton] “purchase of Louisiana” New York Evening Post 5 July 1803
- Federalist Alarm
- A Republican Response
- Senate Debates On the Louisiana Purchase 2–3 November 1803
- The Embargo
- An Act Laying an Embargo On All Ships and Vessels In the Ports and Harbors of the United States 22 December 1807
- Resistance, Enforcement, and Repeal
- The War of 1812
- Madison’s War Message 2 June 1812
- Samuel Taggart, Speech Opposing the War 24 June 1812
- Henry Clay, Speech Supporting the War 9 January 1813
- Report and Resolutions of the Hartford Convention 4 January 1815
- Part 7: The End of an Era
- Madison’s Seventh Annual Message 5 December 1815
- Madison’s Veto of the Internal Improvements Bill 3 March 1817
- In Retrospect
- The Adams-jefferson Correspondence John Adams to Thomas Jefferson 13 July 1813
- Thomas Jefferson to Justice William Johnson 12 June 1823
- Republican Farewells
- Bibliography
The Democratic Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) Principles, Articles, and Regulations 30 May 1793
The rights of man, the genuine objects of society, and the legitimate principles of government have been clearly developed by the successive Revolutions of America and France. Those events have withdrawn the veil which concealed the dignity and the happiness of the human race, and have taught us, no longer dazzled with adventitious splendor or awed by antiquated usurpation, to erect the Temple of liberty on the ruins of Palaces and Thrones.
At this propitious period, when the nature of freedom and equality is thus practically displayed, and when their value (best understood by those who have paid the price of acquiring them) is universally acknowledged, the patriotic mind will naturally be solicitous, by every proper precaution, to preserve and perpetuate the blessings which Providence hath bestowed upon our country: For, in reviewing the history of nations, we find occasion to lament that the vigilance of the people has been too easily absorbed in victory; and that the prize which has been achieved by the wisdom and valor of one generation has too often been lost by the ignorance and supineness of another.
With a view, therefore, to cultivate the just knowledge of rational liberty, to facilitate the enjoyment and exercise of our civil rights, and to transmit, unimpaired, to posterity, the glorious inheritance of a free Republican Government, the Democratic Society of Pennsylvania is constituted and established. Unfettered by religious or national distinctions, unbiased by party and unmoved by ambition, this institution embraces the interest and invites the support of every virtuous citizen. The public good is indeed its sole object, and we think that the best means are pursued for obtaining it when we recognize the following as the fundamental principles of our association.
I. That the people have the inherent and exclusive right and power of making and altering forms of government; and that for regulating and protecting our social interests, a Republican Government is the most natural and beneficial form which the wisdom of man has devised.
II. That the Republican Constitutions of the United States and of the State of Pennsylvania, being framed and established by the people, it is our duty as good citizens to support them. And in order effectually to do so, it [is] likewise the duty of every freeman to regard with attention and to discuss without fear the conduct of the public servants in every department of government.
III. That in considering the administration of public affairs, men and measures should be estimated according to their intrinsic merits; and therefore, regardless of party spirit or political connection, it is the duty of every citizen, by making the general welfare the rule of his conduct, to aid and approve those men and measures which have an influence in promoting the prosperity of the Commonwealth.
IV. That in the choice of persons to fill the offices of government, it is essential to the existence of a free Republic that every citizen should act according to his own judgment, and, therefore, any attempt to corrupt or delude the people in exercising the rights of suffrage, either by promising the favor of one candidate or traducing the character of another, is an offence equally injurious to moral rectitude and civil liberty.
V. That the People of Pennsylvania form but one indivisible community, whose political rights and interest, whose national honor and prosperity, must in degree and duration be forever the same; and, therefore it is the duty of every freeman and shall be the endeavor of the Democratic Society to remove the prejudices, to conciliate the affections, to enlighten the understanding, and to promote the happiness of all our fellow-citizens… .
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