James Monroe - Part 2

We pick up right where we left off in Part 1 during the year of 1800 with the introduction of Jefferson’s administration, where we really start to see the political career of President Monroe blossom. He is a crucial figure within it as well as  Madison’s administration, and it becomes easy to understand how essentially Monroe is guaranteed the Presidency by the time he takes office. His success and support for the War of 1812 becomes the final nail in the coffin for the Federalist Party, and Monroe further seizes upon his personal aspiration in trying to eliminate political parties in the US as a whole after his 1816 election win, ushering in a brief time period known as the The Era of Good Feelings.

Now that we are able to finally explore Monroe’s actual Presidency in this episode, we examine a futile and somewhat bold question, what was the point during these whole 50 years? Monroe takes the country in a direction of continued territorial expansion through the means of war, declares the most aggressive US foreign policy stance yet through the Monroe Doctrine, and further cements the eventuality of a Civil War occurring through his support of the Missouri Compromise. After living through the Revolution and helping to create and shape a document as creative and innovative as the US Constitution, it becomes hard to see how the founders era truly separates the US from any other Imperialist power at the time. If there is such a thing as American exceptionalism, we examine that it really can only be seen in political thought, and not actual practice in the founders era.

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