Examples of virtue in the following topics:
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- Eighteenth century republicanism in the United States prioritized political participation, commitment to the common good, and individual virtue.
- Virtue was of the utmost importance for citizens and representatives.
- Civic virtue became a matter of public interest and discussion during the 18th century, in part because of the American Revolutionary War.
- In a republic, however, people must be persuaded to submit their own interests to the government, and this voluntary submission constituted the 18th century's notion of civic virtue.
- Independently wealthy men committed to liberty and property rights were considered most likely to possess sufficient civic virtue to safeguard a republic from the dangers of corruption.
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- Drawing from colonial experience, British political liberties, classical Roman and Greek culture, and various notions of civic virtue, intellectuals and leaders devised a political theory known as "American republicanism".
- Virtue was of the utmost importance for citizens and representatives, and a virtuous citizen was one that ignored monetary compensation and made a commitment to resist and eradicate corruption.
- In the 1790s, during the years of the early United States Republic, these figures would vehemently disagree with each other not only over how republicanism should be politically structured (embodied by the struggle between Federalists and Anti-Federalists over the ratification of the Constitution), but also, over various definitions of proper civic virtue.
- Republican virtue, Federalists argued, was found in commerce, because commercial ties created the national strength and wealth necessary to safeguard liberties.
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- Although Jeffersonians extolled the virtues of the independent yeoman, they also were strongly in favor of slavery.
- It was thought that because these white men had been born and raised in a system of freedom and republicanism, they had cultivated the virtues necessary to manage their own liberties.
- Slaves, on the other hand, were considered uneducated, unenlightened, and simple people who could not be expected to understand the virtues of self-reliance or political freedom; they instead needed the guidance of the white farmer to manage their lives and affairs.
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- Virtue was of the utmost importance for citizens and representatives.
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- The postwar years saw the rise of various women's service and reform societies geared toward improving the republic through domestic virtues.
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- Perhaps one of the most remarkable characteristics of Roosevelt's presidency was his conviction that the president, by virtue of his election by the nation, was the representative figure of the American people, as opposed to Congress.
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- Virtue was of the utmost importance for citizens and representatives.
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- In the 1790s, Hamilton and the Federalist Party extolled innovation in manufacturing (demonstrated by the development of the "American System") as the supreme virtues of American republicanism.
- As opposed to his Democratic-Republican contemporaries who espoused agriculture and farming as the backbone of the American economy, Hamilton believed that overall commercial development would foster the republican virtues of self-reliance and autonomy, as well as American independence in the world economic system.
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- Whereas the founders of the new nation envisioned the United States as a republic, not a democracy, and had placed safeguards such as the Electoral College in the 1787 Constitution to prevent simple majority rule, the early 1820s saw many Americans embracing majority rule and rejecting old forms of deference that were based on elite ideas of virtue, learning, and family lineage.
- As Federalist ideals fell out of favor, ordinary white men from the middle and lower classes increasingly questioned the idea that property ownership—which was required in most states to be able to vote—was an indication of virtue.
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- Williams named the other islands in the Narragansett Bay after virtues: Patience Island, Prudence Island, and Hope Island.
- Williams wrote favorably about the American Indian peoples, contrasting their virtues with Puritan New England’s intolerance.