Character to fame generous charc bequeathed it his immortal name. Some lines later, the fourth , president s name was joined to that of the first. The the honored place of washington was filled by madison in diplomacy skilled. Dipl a seat far more exalted than a throne, or ever yet too hauty monarchs known. The patriotic consensus went like this. The office of the presidency all by itself was a testament to thy nobility of the american political experiment. And madison had already proved himself by 1814 as both as great and as a appropriately humble as the first of men, George Washington. So the unfortunate tendency is to make history simple. The whole idea of a political la faith is that it is supposed to eliminate confusion by suggesting pictures to the mindt that are frozen in time, somehow pure, cleaner, than they really were. The world had known many a hauty monarch, americas distinctive e characteristics was its nonhereditary system of governance. The presidencys republican chara
Without politics voting to raise taxes on the people who voted them in or out of office. This is a conundrum the 21st century understands. Peace negotiations got under way in europe with madisons full support. He needed Albert Galatin as his linchpin on the negotiating team in gent. British ships had appeared at the mouth of the potomac as early as july 1813, and raids along the chesapeake caused a Nervous Congress to look less favorably on an Internal Revenue solution. The fiery decimation of the white house, the capital, you know, august 1814 only intensified the need to reorder republican priorities and accommodate president madisons turnabout in favoring tax increases and a National Bank that secured a uniform currency and maintained peoples confidence in government during peace time as well as war. He had quietly succeeded in rendering hamiltons purportedly unconstitutional bank safe. A bank compromised of private merchants and stock jobing speculat speculators. This was no longer
And the constitution that will reflect adaptability and great persuasion mad sentence had. An interesting capstone to two days of i think what we all can agree has been just a tremendous group of presentations. So the first speaker that will be coming up this afternoon is kenneth r. Bowling. Kenneth received his phd from the university of wisconsin. His specialty is the creation of the is all about the creation of the federal government during the revolution. Hes been very active and interested in particularly researching the seat of government. Hes been the author of many book and articles. Throughout most of his professional life, hes been the coeditor of documentary history of First Federal congress. I do want to say one thing about one of his books, which i think is a real classic now, thats the creation of washington, d. C. , which is published back in 1991. If anybody wants to know about behind the scenes and proceedings and meetings and all the things that went on in terms of th