[語文] PP1-RC 148
Essay #9. 148 (22549-!-item-!-188;#058&00148-00)
In a new book about the antiparty feeling of the early political leaders of
the United States, Ralph Ketcham argues that the first six Presidents differed
decisively from later Presidents because the first six held values inherited
from the classical humanist tradition of eighteenth-century England. In this
view, government was designed not to satisfy the private desires of the people
but to make them better citizens; this tradition stressed the disinterested
devotion of political leaders to the public good. Justice, wisdom, and
courage were more important qualities in a leader than the ability to organize
voters and win elections. Indeed, leaders were supposed to be called to
office rather than to run for office. And if they took up the burdens of
public office with a sense of duty, leaders also believed that such offices
were naturally their due because of their social preeminence or their
contributions to the country. Given this classical conception of leadership,
it is not surprising that the first six Presidents condemned political parties.
Parties were partial by definition, self-interested, and therefore serving
something other than the transcendent public good.
Even during the first presidency (Washington's), however, the classical
conception of virtuous leadership was being undermined by commercial forces
that had been gathering since at least the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Commerce--its profit-making, its self-interestedness, its individualism--became
the enemy of these classical ideals. Although Ketcham does not picture
the struggle in quite this way, he does rightly see Jackson's tenure (the
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seventh presidency) as the culmination of the acceptance of party, commerce,
and individualism. For the Jacksonians, nonpartisanship lost its relevance,
and under the direction of Van Buren, party gained a new legitimacy. The
classical ideals of the first six Presidents became identified with a privileged
aristocracy, an aristocracy that had to be overcome in order to allow competition
between opposing political interests. Ketcham is so strongly committed to
justifying the classical ideals, however, that he underestimates the advantages
of their decline. For example, the classical conception of leadership was
incompatible with our modern notion of the freedoms of speech and press,
freedoms intimately associated with the legitimacy of opposing political
parties.
Question #32. 148-04 (22733-!-item-!-188;#058&000148-04)
Which of the following, if true, provides the LEAST support for the author's
argument about commerce and political parties during Jackson's presidency?
(A) Many supporters of Jackson resisted the commercialization that could
result from participation in a national economy.
(B) Protest against the corrupt and partisan nature of political parties in the
United States subsided during Jackson's presidency.
(C) During Jackson's presidency the use of money became more common than
bartering of goods and services.
(D) More northerners than southerners supported Jackson because southerners
were opposed to the development of a commercial economy.
(E) Andrew Jackson did not feel as strongly committed to the classical
ideals of leadership as George Washington had felt.
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