Coup of 18 Fructidor, 116
Creek tribe, 210, 300, 317, 397, 402, 412
Crim, Mrs., 432
Crittenden, John, 388
Crowninshield, George, Jr., 380
Crowninshield, Richard, 380–81
Crowninshield, Sturges v., 381–82, 383
Cushing, William, 68, 223, 232, 233, 234, 246, 307
Cutting, Nathaniel, 149–50
Daily National Intelligencer, 317–18, 323, 414, 433
Dallas, Alexander, 240, 310
Dallas (revenue cutter), 352, 357
Dartmouth College/University, 374–80, 381
Daveiss, Joseph Hamilton, 284
Davies, William, 196, 206, 354
Davis, John, 381
Dayton, Jonathan, 284–85
Deane, Silas, 10, 106
debating the Constitution, 35–44, 188, 220
debtors’ rights, 28–29, 62–66, 67, 68–70, 199
Declaration of Independence, 22, 36, 385, 426
Delano, Joshua, 318–20
Democratic Party, 94, 386, 427, 428, 429
Democratic-Republican Party, 94, 331
See also Jacksonians; Jeffersonians
Denmark/Danish, 264, 265–66, 270–71, 327, 328
Department of War, 322, 323
de Staël, Germaine, 120
de Villette, Madame, 135–36, 137–39, 140, 147–49, 151, 152, 153–54, 155–56, 163, 166–67, 407
Dexter, Samuel, 196, 224
Diligente (corsair), 238
“diplomatic protection,” 204
discretionary power, 255–56
District of Columbia, 226, 243, 259, 345
doctrine of discovery, 401, 402–3, 404, 405, 421–22
doctrine of nullification, 185, 424
“domestic dependent nations,” 415
Dorchester, General Lord, 100
doves “mistakenly” roasted, 137
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 257, 388, 435
Duke of Wellington, 317, 321
Dunmore, Lord, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 398
Duvall, Gabriel, 307, 358, 377, 378, 381, 383, 421, 429
East Florida. See Florida
Eaton, William, 290
Eighth Amendment, 44
Elam, Pleasants, 390, 391
Elam & Foster, Neilson v., 392–94
Electoral College, 218–19, 221, 227
Eleventh Amendment, 302–3, 344, 345
Ellsworth, Oliver, 68, 196, 206, 221, 223
emancipation of slaves, 47, 48–49
embargo acts, 308–9, 317
Embuscade (frigate), 73, 74, 79–80, 83
Emmet, Thomas Addis, 366–67
Emulous (merchant vessel), 318–20
England. See Britain/British
entangling alliances, 87–95
Era of Good Feelings, 331, 349
Essay on Man (Pope), 13
estrangement, 300–305, 338, 347
Everett, Edward, 385
Exchange (schooner), 309–14, 329
executive branch, 26, 107, 198, 199, 272, 278, 292, 311
Executive Mansion, 306, 317, 388, 408
expatriates, 138, 149–51, 266–67
“extravagant pretense” (Marshall), 2–3, 405
Fairfax, Hunter v., 66
Fairfax, Lord, 12, 13, 14, 28–29, 62, 66, 90, 97, 98, 104, 105, 106, 110, 112, 115, 125, 194, 248, 250, 320, 335, 439
Farell & Jones, 52, 63
Fauquier County, Virginia, 11, 12, 24, 25, 29, 110, 276, 299, 430
Fayettistes, 55
“Feast of Traitors,” 291
Federal Coasting Act, 366, 367, 369, 370
Federalism, 224, 234, 375, 439
Federalist, 35, 337
federalists (Federalist Party)
debating the Constitution, 36, 40–41, 41–42
entangling alliances, 88–90, 91, 92, 93, 94
Genet and, 74, 79, 81, 82, 86
High Federalists, 68, 108, 195, 198, 205, 208
Jay’s Treaty, 102, 105
Jonathan Robbins, 189, 192
Marshall as leader, 86, 88–90, 92, 93, 106, 198, 237, 249, 337
republicans vs., 48, 60, 86, 89, 90, 108, 179, 180, 198, 214, 225, 226, 236–37, 239, 245, 266–67, 299, 331
slavery, 47, 48, 343
War of 1812, 316
XYZ Affair, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 183
Yazoo lands, 301–2, 305
See also Adams, John; Hamilton, Alexander; Marshall, John; political parties; Washington, George; specific other federalists
federal judges, 41, 246, 247, 256–57, 258, 288
federal power over states (supreme law), 184–85, 229, 337–38, 339–47, 364–72
Feuillants, 119
Fifth Amendment, 44, 253, 401
First Amendment, 44, 164–65, 180, 181, 293
First Bank of the United States, 97
Fitch, John, 364–65
Fletcher, Robert, 303, 304
Fletcher v. Peck, 304–5, 373, 375, 376, 381
Florida, 72, 73, 81, 82, 206, 210, 211, 352, 361, 389–91, 392, 393, 394
Flying Fish (brigantine), 270, 271–72
foreign affairs, 77, 104, 116, 302, 305, 368, 381–82
Forsyth, John, 397, 413
Foster, James, 390, 391
Foster & Elam v. Neilson, 392–94
Foullon de Doué, Joseph, 57
Fourth Amendment, 44
Framers of the Constitution, 42, 107, 233, 245, 257–58, 291, 350, 378, 382
See also Constitution
France/French
Adams vs., 107–9, 123, 127, 130, 150, 159, 160, 161, 170–71, 175, 177, 196, 205, 207–8, 209, 218
Britain/British vs., 113, 116, 120, 121, 123, 126, 130, 133, 140, 146, 152–53, 156, 162, 163, 166, 170, 171, 206, 208, 210, 308, 317, 437
French and Indian Wars, 15, 248, 325
French Directory, 107, 108, 112, 116, 118, 121, 122, 123, 126, 130, 131, 138, 141, 146, 153, 159, 160, 161, 163, 170, 171–72, 174, 180, 200, 206
French Revolution, 39, 54–61, 71, 75, 77, 78, 79, 83–84, 86, 91, 92, 93–94, 100, 115, 119, 203, 206, 263, 437, 438
homosexuality in France, 136–37
Jay’s Treaty, 101, 102, 103
Louisiana Purchase and, 391, 392, 394
love and war, 133–46
Monroe and, 115, 122, 149, 150
neutrality policy, 96, 99
Pinckney and, 310
privateers and pirates, 131, 211, 212, 214
prizes of war, 265, 267, 270, 271–72
Quasi-War with France, 175, 178–79, 181, 183, 196, 200, 205–9, 218, 238, 239, 263–64, 325
Reign of Terror, 61, 73, 120, 145
republicans and, 62, 146, 149, 150, 162
Revolutionary War aid, 7, 70
slavery, 361
sovereignty, meaning, 310, 311, 313
Spain and, 123, 158, 197, 206, 308, 392, 393, 394
Steuben and, 6, 8
Treaty of Alliance, 59, 60, 72, 76, 86, 113, 141
U.S. and, 315, 331, 385
See also Genet, Edmond Charles; Napoleon Bonaparte; Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de
Francophiles, 78, 107
Franklin, Benjamin, 10, 175, 208, 401
Franklin, Peter, 50
Franklin (vessel), 210
Frederick the Great (King of Prussia), 10
free press, 164–65
“free ships make free goods,” 101, 113
Frelinghuysen, Theodore, 397
Freneau, Philip, 78, 85
Fries’s Rebellion, 288
&nbs
p; “From the Chameleon to the Mocking Bird” (Marshall), 334
frontier soldier. See Marshall, John (soldier)
Fulton, Robert, 365, 371
Gallatin, Albert, 171–72, 173, 187, 192, 231, 237, 278, 302, 322
General Advertiser, 89, 90, 91
General Greene (frigate), 270, 271
Genet, Edmé Jacques, 71
Genet, Edmond Charles, 71–86, 88, 89, 90, 92, 94–95, 109, 123, 176, 220, 286, 438
See also France/French
George III (King of England), 15, 58, 397–98
Georgia, 300–301, 302, 303, 305, 344, 353, 355, 356, 370, 371, 390, 396, 397, 401–2, 406, 412, 425, 426, 429, 435
Georgia, Cherokee Nation v., 413–16, 419, 420, 421, 422, 423, 439
Germans/Germany, 6, 8, 10
Gerry, Elbridge, 108, 116–65, 176, 177, 226–27
gerrymandering, 118
Gibbons, Thomas, 365–67, 369, 371–72
Giles, William Branch, 242
Gilmer, George, 419–20
Girondists, 57, 71, 72
“God Save the King” (Freneau), 78
Goodman, Samuel, 271
Governor Tompkins (privateer), 328–29
Grace (brigantine), 113, 114–15
Grange (merchant vessel), 79–80
Grayson, William, 36
Great Britain. See Britain/British
Great Steamboat Case, 363, 364–72
Greeley, Horace, 423
Greetham, William, 310
Grenville, Lord William Wyndham, 100–101, 199, 200, 210
Griffin, Cyrus, 65–66
Grotius, Hugo, 64, 362
guerrilla warfare, 8
Gunn, James, 301
Habersham, Richard Wylly, 353, 354
ha-ha, 232
Hamilton, Alexander
Adams vs., 170, 193, 196, 208, 215–16, 217
Burr vs., 219–21, 278
debating the Constitution, 38
entangling alliances, 86, 88–92, 94
French Revolution, 60, 62
Genet and, 75, 76, 81, 84, 85–86, 94–95
genius of, 386, 434
Jay’s Treaty, 100, 103, 105
Maria Reynolds and, 167
Marshall and, 11, 45, 88, 98, 109, 337
New Yazoo, 302, 305
nomination to Supreme Court refused, 223
Quasi-War with France, 175, 239
supreme law, 339, 341
Talleyrand and, 120, 131–32
yellow fever, 87
See also federalists (Federalist Party)
Hampden, 343, 346
See also Roane, Spencer
Hancock, John, 10, 34
Hare, Charles, 311
Harper, Robert Goodloe, 278, 288, 303, 311, 399, 400
Harper, William, 245, 253
Harrison, Randolph, 74
Harrison, William Henry, 317, 400
Harvard, 276, 299, 300, 307, 377, 428
Hauteval, Lucien (“Z”), 128
Hawkins, Benjamin, 210
Hay, George, 291, 293, 294
Helvidius, 77, 86
See also Madison
Henry, Patrick, 17, 18, 24, 36, 38, 40–41, 43, 44, 63, 68, 75, 184, 185, 223, 404
Hermione (warship), 189, 191
high crimes, 275–81
High Federalists, 68, 108, 195, 198, 205, 208
Hite, Joost, 29
Hoban, James, 198
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 338
Hooe, Robert Townsend, 245, 253
Hop in the Well (play), 67
Hopkinson, Joseph, 341
Hottinguer, Jean Conrad (“X”), 125–26, 126–27, 129, 130–31, 151
House of Burgesses, 12, 16
House of Representatives, 92–93, 104, 171–73, 182, 187–88, 190–92, 194, 196, 217, 218–19, 221, 227, 228, 246, 251, 277, 278, 297, 302, 312, 316, 331, 332, 350
Hume, David, 22
Humphreys, David, 210–11
Hunter, David, 66, 335–36
Hunter’s Lessee, Martin v., 66, 335–38, 342, 345, 346, 347, 372, 391, 439
Hunter v. Fairfax, 66
Hylton, Daniel L., 63–65
Hylton, Ware v., 65–66, 67, 68–70
Illinois Indians, 398, 399
Illinois-Wabash Company, 399, 400, 401, 403, 405
immigrants, 179, 266–67
impeachment, 3, 246, 251–52, 276–77, 279–81, 282, 294, 296, 303, 309, 399, 438
impressment into British navy, 99, 114, 189, 190, 201, 202, 203–4, 205, 313, 315
inaugurations, 59, 107, 228, 229, 282, 306, 331–32, 387, 388
Independent Chronicle, 260
Indiana, 283, 317, 399–400
Indian Removal Act, 397, 421
Indian rights, 316, 362, 390, 394, 396–406, 412–16, 419–25, 435–36, 437, 439
infrastructure, 341, 349, 364, 366
Ingersoll, Charles Jared, 356
Ingersoll, Jared, 240
Inman, Henry, 417
Innes, James, 63, 97
innocence lost, American democracy, 54–70
international law, 4, 241, 262–74, 309–14, 320–21, 325, 327–30, 392, 422
Iredell, James, 65–66, 67, 68
Irving, Washington, 290, 292, 306
isolationist and pragmatic (American exceptionalism), 94
Jackson, Andrew, 283, 286, 318, 386–89, 390, 394, 396, 397, 411, 413–14, 420, 423–25, 427, 428–29, 432, 434–36
Jackson, James, 301
Jackson, John, 352, 354
Jackson, Rachel, 387
Jacksonians, 94, 387–88, 394, 395, 396–97, 410, 411, 412
See also Democratic Party
Jacobins, 72–73, 94, 119
Jay, John, 55, 65, 88, 90, 219, 221, 222
Jay’s Treaty, 100–105, 109, 110, 122, 143, 144, 150, 189, 190, 191, 197, 199–200, 201, 202, 207, 220, 223, 438
Jefferson, Martha Wayles, 51–52, 53
Jefferson, Peter, 13
Jefferson, Thomas
Adams vs., 61, 81, 107, 108, 109, 171, 173, 174, 195, 201, 217, 220, 229, 298, 438
Alien and Sedition Acts, 180
Burr vs., 218, 227–28, 282–83, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 291–92, 294, 295, 296, 438
Chase vs., 276–77, 278, 279, 281, 438
Constitution and, 295–96
death of, 410, 433
debating the Constitution, 35, 37, 38–39, 41
debt owed by, 63, 237
Declaration of Independence, 22, 36, 385, 426
doctrine of nullification, 185, 424
entangling alliances, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92, 94
Florida, 389, 390
French Revolution, 54, 55–56, 58–59, 60–61, 62
Genet and, 75, 77–83, 84, 85, 86, 88, 94
inaugural message, 228–29, 242
Jay’s Treaty, 104, 105
Jonathan Robbins, 190, 191
judicial review, 258
justices of the peace, 243, 244, 245, 253
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, 184–85, 229, 342
Madison and, 45, 60, 76, 77–78, 80–81, 83, 86, 185, 219, 287, 307, 337
Marshall vs., 1–2, 3, 13, 19, 23, 27, 54, 89, 92, 95, 99, 109, 168, 177–78, 181, 183, 187, 188, 194, 197, 198, 219, 220–21, 224, 225, 226, 229–30, 234, 235, 249–50, 254, 260, 261, 264, 267, 274, 282, 287, 291, 292, 295, 337, 343–44, 347, 385, 428, 436–39
Monroe and, 76, 85, 221, 226
Notes on the State of Virginia, 35
Paine and, 263–64
President’s House, 231–32, 306
privateers and
pirates, 213–14
Quasi-War with France, 181
revolutionary capital, 20–21, 22, 24
slavery, 45, 47, 48, 51, 52–53, 349, 350, 351, 355
Supreme Court and, 298–99, 307
supreme law, 339
U.S. expatriates in Paris, 149, 150, 151
Washington vs., 58–59, 76–77, 77–78, 82, 85, 220, 229, 437–38
Yazoo lands, 302
See also Marshall, John; republicans (Republican Party)
Jeffersonians, 94, 234, 236–37, 242, 331, 410
See also Democratic Party
Jeune Eugénie (slave ship), 361
Johnson, Thomas, 399, 400, 401, 402
Johnson, William, 298, 355–56, 358, 370, 377, 381, 383, 411, 415, 416, 420, 428
Johnson v. M’Intosh, 397–406, 421
Jones, Walter, 341
Jones, William, 63–65
judicial review, 3, 4, 27, 32, 42, 69, 257–60
Judiciary Act of 1789, 256–57, 258–59, 272
Judiciary Act of 1801 (Circuit Court Act), 225–26, 242, 245, 246, 260
Judiciary Act of 1802 (Repeal Act), 245–47, 249, 250, 255, 260
justices of the peace (“midnight judges”), 226, 243–45, 252, 253, 254, 255
Kemble, Fanny, 428
Kentucky, 15, 16, 82, 98, 185, 186, 245, 275, 283, 294, 298, 300, 371, 383, 388, 399, 402
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, 184–85, 229, 342
Key, Francis Scott, 288, 356–57
King, Miles, 265
King, Rufus, 88, 199–200, 201, 202, 208, 211
Kirkland, John Thornton, 300
Knox, Henry, 84
l’Académie des États-Unis de l’Amérique, 39–40
Lafayette, Marquis de, 11, 55, 57, 61, 162
Laird, Stuart v., 251, 260–61
Laird and Robertson of Glasgow, 250
Lambeth, Eliza, 334
Land Grant of 1795, 301, 302, 303, 304–5
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 297–98
“lawful prize,” 99
Law of Nations, The (Vattel), 403
law vs. morality, 359, 361–62, 404, 414, 439–40
leaked documents, 88, 90, 102
Lear, Tobias, 247
Lee, Charles, 1–2, 170, 194, 245, 250, 252–53, 254, 259–60, 287–88
Lee, Henry, 17, 26, 36, 50, 89, 97, 184, 188
Leggett, William, 434
L’Enfant, Pierre, 196
Less, Charles, 288
Lewis, Morgan, 283
l’hôtel d’Elbeuf, 135, 138
“liberty,” 40, 41
Life of George Washington, The (Marshall), 2, 247–50, 402
Lincoln, Abraham, 41, 257, 388
Lincoln, Levi, 244, 252–53, 302, 307
Liston, Robert, 193
Little, George, 271–72, 273
Little Sarah (merchant vessel), 83
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