{"id":1845991,"date":"2023-02-14T07:48:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T12:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845991"},"modified":"2023-02-14T07:55:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T12:55:49","slug":"biden-and-his-d-c-buddies-could-learn-a-little-something-from-the-jeffersonians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-and-his-d-c-buddies-could-learn-a-little-something-from-the-jeffersonians\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden And His D.C. Buddies Could Learn A Little Something From The Jeffersonians"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-and-his-d-c-buddies-could-learn-a-little-something-from-the-jeffersonians%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845991&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Last week, President Biden delivered his State of the Union address. It was full of pomp, circumstance, and grandeur. After a tour of Congress, the president climbed to the podium and began to list a number of items that he wanted Congress to address.<\/p>\n<p>This is the normal course for modern presidents. But for three of Biden\u2019s most illustrious predecessors \u2014 Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe \u2014 obsequious deference to the chief executive was positively un-American. To make one man the center of the nation\u2019s political life was antithetical to the Constitution and republicanism in the eyes of the three Jeffersonians.<\/p>\n<p>In his latest book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jeffersonians-Kevin-R-C-Gutzman\/dp\/1250135451\/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=CjwKCAiAioifBhAXEiwApzCzths6atMUxotFRJ4A4un-cYR6liY4k6hBS3zzXc5yYI4MvTH2GoDGqhoCoB4QAvD_BwE&#038;hvadid=410016495487&#038;hvdev=c&#038;hvlocphy=9023613&#038;hvnetw=s&#038;hvqmt=b&#038;hvrand=14406092286437972524&#038;hvtargid=kwd-4244372447&#038;hydadcr=15272_11427834&#038;keywords=kevin+gutzman&#038;qid=1675802697&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe<\/a>,\u201d Kevin R.C. Gutzman provides a detailed, yet comprehensive account of how these three Virginians managed the nation and what legacy of republicanism it left. By studying the example they set, we might be better equipped to address our own political woes.<\/p>\n<p>Gutzman\u2019s story begins with the titular Jefferson. Jefferson was elected to office in 1801, and his supporters considered it a revolution. As Gutzman writes, \u201cPart of that Revolution was a sharp shift in manners.\u201d Jefferson set himself apart from his predecessors and wanted to be seen as an honest man of the people. He chose to walk to the Capitol in plain clothes for his inauguration, eschewing President Adams\u2019 fancy carriage and ceremonial sword.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson also decided to scrap his predecessors\u2019 tradition of delivering the State of the Union address orally. Jefferson, who was not comfortable with speeches, decided to submit his report electronically because he felt the annual address seemed like an appropriate way to communicate his thoughts. \u201cspeech from the throne.\u201d In his unpretentious style, Jefferson informed the people\u2019s representatives that out of \u201cprincipal regard to \u2026 the economy of their time,\u201d He wouldn&#8217;t ask them to get together to listen to his story. <\/p>\n<p>Madison and Monroe did the same, as every president up to Woodrow Wilson. For the Jeffersonians, the president\u2019s job was to efficiently administer the government, not waste time with pompous speeches. Imagine what they might think of the current State of the Union addresses.<\/p>\n<p>But the Jeffersonians weren\u2019t only concerned with outward appearances. They also believed government policies needed to closely adhere to the country\u2019s founding principles. Protecting freedom of speech, reducing the size of the military, and slashing federal spending were all on the Jeffersonians\u2019 agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson started pardoning people who were convicted of sedition under the Sedition Act in 1798 just days after his inauguration. This flagrantly unconstitutional law made it illegal to criticize members of the federal government (except, conveniently, the vice president, the position Jefferson held at the time of the law\u2019s enactment). The president declared the law null and void and refused to permit anyone to be tried under it.<\/p>\n<p>The Jeffersonians\u2019 next priority was to shrink the military. The Jeffersonians are suspicious of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jeffersonians&#8217; political philosophy was wildly different from that of today\u2019s Republicans and Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1308,"featured_media":1845994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8231,3620,17860,10924,18569],"class_list":["post-1845991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-learn","tag-biden","tag-buddies","tag-d-c","tag-jeffersonians"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1845994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}