Question

Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. . . . We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”

---Thomas Jefferson, first inaugural address, 1801
The excerpt best reflects which of the following?


Secessionist pressures coming from slaveholders in the South

Fear that the United States would be overtaken by a foreign power

Conflicts over how the Constitution should be implemented and interpreted

Disagreement over the consequences of the French Revolution for the United States

Answer 1

The correct answer is C. Conflicts over how the Constitution should be implemented and interpreted.

Step-by-step explanation

Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States, in this speech he wanted to express his wish for the union of all people of the United States no matter their political beliefs; this is explained in "Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind." Also, he wanted to express that some people interpreted badly the Constitution because liberty was not a reason for intolereance against their compatriots, as he said "Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things" and "we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance" According to the Above, Thomas Jefferson wanted to strengthen the constitution, clarifying some things that were being implemented and misinterpreted and had generated conflicts. So Jefferson wanted to make a call to the union of all Americans and clarify that freedom is a right that must be handled in a good way without compromising in a bad way his compatriots. According to the above, the correct answer is C. Conflicts over how the Constitution should be implemented and interpreted.