{"id":14,"date":"2012-10-09T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359f2012\/?p=14"},"modified":"2012-11-23T14:31:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T19:31:19","slug":"a-return-to-life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359f2012\/1796\/a-return-to-life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"A Return to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Return to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HrrToioH8Zc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Riemann<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>For Jefferson Explanation Paper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In this video I hoped to draw on the fear of monarchy that Jefferson and Democratic-Republicans focused on eliminating by erasing an overpowering federal and executive branch of government.\u00a0 <!--more-->I wanted to revolve the video around getting American\u2019s back in the Revolutionary spirit that Jefferson and his followers felt Americans had strayed from during Washington\u2019s presidency, all while exposing Jefferson\u2019s character as a person to connect to American citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The song \u201cAh! Ca Ira\u201d that I used throughout this video was the song of the French Revolution, meaning \u201cOh! It\u2019ll be Fine\u201d.\u00a0 It gave the hope of liberty and freedom to the French Revolutionists and Democratic- Republicans used it to persuade American\u2019s to recapture the revolutionary spirit that had escaped them during the presidency of Washington and the Federalists.\u00a0 The French were trying to overthrow a monarchy and Jefferson was trying to prevent a monarchy from forming in America.<\/p>\n<p>My first clip\u2019s quote lays out Jefferson\u2019s plan for balancing the powers of government, assigning foreign affairs to the federal government but giving the state governments responsibility of all domestic and taxation policies.\u00a0 This would separate powers and prevent one branch of government from becoming too overbearing.\u00a0\u00a0 I scrolled this quote in light blue letters to soothe and reassure the audience that this plan would be good for America.\u00a0 The background picture is supposedly dated 1784.\u00a0 I could not find many good pictures on loc.gov dated before the 1796 election so I used this from Google images.<\/p>\n<p>My next clip used an excerpt from Greenleaf\u2019s New York Journal from 1796, highlighting Jefferson being a \u201cpure Republican and honest man.\u201d\u00a0 I wanted to counter any arguments that he didn\u2019t fight in the military like Washington and other American hero\u2019s by claiming that he hadn\u2019t \u201cbeen corrupted by military habits.\u201d \u00a0I also hoped that this might overshadow the criticisms of him deserting his post as Governor of Virginia during the Revolutionary War.\u00a0 Pointing out his avoidance of \u201csordid speculation\u201d helped distance him from Federalist and Hamiltonian economic and debt policies.<\/p>\n<p>I added a shot of the Declaration of Independence to remind the audience that Jefferson had sparked the Revolutionary spirits and created the document that led to liberty and American freedom.\u00a0 This is what he wanted American\u2019s to return to.<\/p>\n<p>A November 2, 1796 \u201cCentinel of Freedom\u201d article gave me two different excerpts in favor of Jefferson.\u00a0 The first highlights how Jefferson being president would spread liberty and invigorate virtues in citizens.\u00a0 I used light blue for the liberty spreading comments to provide a comfortable feeling to the audience.\u00a0 For the \u201cShould Mr. Jefferson be placed\u2026 in the Presidential chair\u201d I highlighted it light green to represent a spring-time, rebirth feeling that stood for the reincarnation of liberty and Revolutionary principles.\u00a0 Jefferson\u2019s presidency would be a new start to the executive government that would bring back what the Revolutionary patriots had in mind when creating the new nation.<\/p>\n<p>The French Revolution political cartoon, \u201cL\u2019Attaque de la Constitution\u201d shows the sentiments of the French people fighting for their liberty like Americans had twenty years before.\u00a0 It shows people fighting the French Constitution, monarchy, and anything standing in the way of their liberty.\u00a0 Jefferson wanted Americans to return to this mindset and not settle for anything less than a true Republic without the fear of a looming monarchy emerging.<\/p>\n<p>The second excerpt from \u201cCentinal of Freedom\u201d highlights how Jefferson was against foreign influence and England.\u00a0 I wanted to counter any arguments that he was \u201ctoo French\u201d by showing that he wanted to use the attitudes of liberty and rebellion against monarchies that were flourishing in France to inspire Americans, but he was doing everything for the good of America.\u00a0 I wanted to make sure that the audience knew that he was \u201cagainst any improper interference from the French nation\u201d and had America\u2019s best interests in mind.\u00a0 I scrolled it upwards to speed up the process and make the viewer focus on the light blue highlighted words of Jefferson detesting foreign influence, hating England, and not letting France take advantage of him and his goals.<\/p>\n<p>My last quote is intended to be simple and speaks for itself with white lettering and a black background, centered on the screen.\u00a0 The words were from a 1795 Kentucky Democratic-Republican Society toast.\u00a0 It ties everything together by telling the audience that in order to return to the mindset of 1776 and true patriotism, Jefferson needed to be elected to eliminate the \u201cdegeneracy and corruption\u201d that had tarnished the US government over the past few years of Federalist rule.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">SLIDE URL LINKS:<\/p>\n<p>1.<\/p>\n<p>a. \u201cAh! Ca Ira!\u201d (Song), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-srLjMRjoVI\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-srLjMRjoVI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>b. (Picture of Jefferson),<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.williams.edu\/wm\/mail\/fetch.html?urlid=g2f784d580ca06f69948d3f125030f5dcakijgpdhal&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.historyplace.com%2Funitedstates%2Frevolution%2Frev-nation.htm\">http:\/\/www.historyplace.com\/unitedstates\/revolution\/rev-nation.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>c. (Jefferson quote to Madison on balancing government powers)<\/p>\n<p>Wood, \u201cEmpire of Liberty\u201d, 148<\/p>\n<p>2. Greenleaf\u2019s New York Journal (1796), <a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.williams.edu\/wm\/mail\/fetch.html?urlid=g24c580a20e1273c77f30a2fe865846c55kijgpdhal&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.newsbank.com%2Fs%2FHistArchive%2Fahnpdoc%2FEANX%2F1096B51436724738%2F0F4223B7E8433C2F\">http:\/\/docs.newsbank.com\/s\/HistArchive\/ahnpdoc\/EANX\/1096B51436724738\/0F4223B7E8433C2F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Photo of the Declaration of Independence,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreemanonline.org\/headline\/declaration-of-independence-2\/\">http:\/\/www.thefreemanonline.org\/headline\/declaration-of-independence-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. \u00a0\u201cCentinel of Freedom\u201d article (1796)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.williams.edu\/wm\/mail\/fetch.html?urlid=g268517d7267dd049311b365af8d6f749ekijgpdhal&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.newsbank.com%2Fs%2FHistArchive%2Fahnpdoc%2FEANX%2F10A09E8C5AC70E88%2F0F4223B7E8433C2F\">http:\/\/docs.newsbank.com\/s\/HistArchive\/ahnpdoc\/EANX\/10A09E8C5AC70E88\/0F4223B7E8433C2F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 \u201cL\u2019Attaque de la Constitution\u201d French Revolution Political Cartoon,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/99471632\/\">http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/99471632\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>6. (Same \u201cCentinel of Freedom\u201d article as #4 lists)<\/p>\n<p>7. Democratic-Republican 1795 toast,<\/p>\n<p>Wood, \u201cEmpire of Liberty\u201d, 164.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Riemann For Jefferson Explanation Paper \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In this video I hoped to draw on the fear of monarchy that Jefferson and Democratic-Republicans focused on eliminating by erasing an overpowering federal and executive branch of government.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-26625"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359f2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359f2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359f2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359f2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359f2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359f2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359f2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359f2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359f2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359f2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}