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A 5 page paper which examines Jefferson’s and Lincoln’s presidential roles and considers such issues as political ideology, political culture, political socialization, political efficacy and party identification. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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these men are the authors of two of the most important documents in cementing the foundation of American democracy and the articulation of a common political ideology - the Declaration
of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation. Jefferson and Lincoln were both very much men of their respective times and shrewdly understood the inner workings of politics and how to
achieve positive results for the constituency they represented without sacrificing their own powerful ambitions to secure the highest office in the fledgling American republic, that of President of the United
States. However, these men, though strongly identified with newly-established political parties that would form the cornerstone of the two-party system, were products of very different political cultures, influenced by
contrasting types of political socialization, had distinct citizen bases of support, espoused dissimilar ideologies, and took widely divergent approaches to achieving political efficacy. Thomas Jefferson had once been a member
of the Federalist Party of George Washington, for whom he served for a time as the nations first Secretary of State. However, serious disagreements with Secretary of the Treasury
Alexander Hamilton surfaced. Hamilton and his supporters contended that an oligarchy was the preferable form of government, while Jefferson envisioned a government by the people. Eventually, Jefferson
abandoned the Federalists and championed another party, that of the Democratic-Republicans, which is now known simply as the Democratic Party. It was comprised primarily of Southern aristocrats (like Jefferson
himself), who took a liberal approach to politics - advocating a decentralized structure in which states were largely self-governing. Jefferson completely immersed himself in his new pro-democratic identity primarily
because it was anti-Federalist. As he once exclaimed to an ally, "O, dont let them listen to those horrible Federalist ideas from the North" (Sofka 7). The fundamental
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