@article{1389228,
      recid = {1389228},
      author = {Sisson, Dan, and Wheeler, Harvey,},
      title = {The American Revolution of 1800 /},
      pages = {xvii, 468, vi pages ;},
      abstract = {In this brilliant historical classic, Dan Sisson argues  that Thomas Jefferson thought democratic revolutions would  be necessary from time to time to break the grip of  autocratic factions on the government. That is how  Jefferson saw the election of 1800--and the lessons for  today couldn't be more obvious. Most historians celebrate  Jefferson's victory over Adams in 1800 as the beginning of  the two-party system, but Jefferson would have been  horrified by this interpretation. Drawing on the  understanding of faction, revolution, and conspiracy  reflected in the writings of the Founders, Sisson makes it  clear that they, like Jefferson, envisioned essentially a  nonparty state. Jefferson believed his election was a  peaceful revolution by the American people overturning an  elitist faction that was stamping out cherished  constitutional rights and trying to transform our young  democracy into an authoritarian state. It was a transfer of  power back to the people, not a change of parties. Sisson  maintains Jefferson would regard our current two-party  system as a repudiation of his theory of revolution and his  earnest desire that the people as a whole, not any faction  or clique, would triumph in government. The ideals of the  American Revolution were in danger until this "Revolution  of 1800," to which we owe the preservation of many of our  key rights.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1389228},
}