The Death of Jeffersonian Democracy & Rapid Rise of America’s Status as a Great World Power
As American rapidly evolved into a powerful modern nation, something was lost. And the local government's power has been gradually encroached by the federal. The land of the modern world particularlty the United States is one of a increasing perplexing nature. The core of my thesis in this response paper is that the modernization of the society we live in, as it evolved from the froniers of preindustrial to postmodern existance has been forced to grapple with a increased federal involvement some would say meddling in the affairs of localities.
The world has moved far away from that of 1830 and America had to move with the tides of development and change if it wanted to remain or aspire to be a great power in the world. America's centralization has been a product of changing priorities and the resulting success of those goals that necessitiated more complicated structures to sustain the society.
This has happened out of necessity for had America kept the structure of decentralization that it had in the 1830s it would not be the modern powerful industrialized nation that is today. The question is have these changes been benefiscal to core American values that led to the formation of the union in the first place?