The "revolution of 1800," as Thomas Jefferson called his presidential election, was "as real a revolution in the principles of our government as that of 1776 was in its form." Federalists had attempted to insult the Republicans by calling them "Democrats," but public endorsement of their policies meant that the term Democratic-Republican was now an acceptable and honorable name. Symbolically, Jefferson marked the end of aristocracy in government by walking to the Capitol to take his oath of office instead of riding in a carriage accompanied by a military honor guard and by delivering his addresses to Congress in writing, not in person. In his first Inaugural Address in March 1801 Jefferson promised "a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take.....
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