Question

Please explain the election of 1800. Who did Jefferson run against and what was the final outcome of the election. Then explain in what ways Thomas Jefferson's presidency can be considered a revolution? Did his presidency deliver the Empire of Liberty as he envisioned? Why or why not? Be sure to include specific details to support your position!

Answer 1

"Democratic based Republican Thomas Jefferson vanquished Federalist John Adams by an edge of seventy-three to sixty-five discretionary votes in the presidential appointment of 1800. At the point when presidential voters cast their votes, be that as it may, they neglected to recognize the workplace of president and VP on their polling forms. Jefferson and his running mate Aaron Burr each got seventy-three votes. With the votes tied, the political race was tossed to the House of Representatives as required by Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution. There, each state casted a ballot as a unit to choose the political race.

The sitting Congress, then governed by the Federalists, loathed to support their political nemesis for Jefferson. Jefferson and Burr practically ran against each other in the House for six days beginning on February 11, 1801. Votes were scored more than thirty times, but neither man captured the necessary majority of nine states. Eventually, under extreme pressure and fear for the future of the Union, Federalist James A. Bayard of Delaware made clear his intention to break the impasse.

As the sole representative of Delaware, Bayard controlled the entire vote of the State. Bayard and other Federalists from South Carolina, Maryland and Vermont cast blank ballots on the thirty-sixth ballot, breaking the deadlock and giving Jefferson the vote of ten states, enough to win the presidency

Thomas Jefferson dubbed his victory "the 1800 Revolution" as it was the first time power passed from one party to another in America. He vowed to rule as he felt the Founders intended , based on democratic government and people confidence to make the right choices for themselves. Those have since become recognised as Jeffersonian values. The election confirmed the emergence of a two-party system in American politics, a development which some Federalists and Democratic-Republicans must have found ironic

The author of the Declaration of Independence and steeped in the rationalist ideals of the Enlightenment, Jefferson, now had the opportunity to put his philosophy into action. He continued to express his confidence in well-informed citizens (though all of them men) to rule themselves over a few landed aristocrats by majority rule. As antidemocratic he opposed specialized federal aid.

In the process, Jefferson gave up his commitment to strict constitution building and moved towards a stronger central government. Jefferson had said he only favored limiting the executive branch to the powers laid down in the Constitution. But the paper had been silent about buying more land. Jefferson went ahead anyway, fearing that if he waited for Congress and the states to pass a constitutional amendment specifically authorizing it, the opportunity to buy the vast Louisiana tract from Napoleon would be lost. Jefferson argued that "losing our country by adhering scrupulously to written laws would be losing the rule itself."