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Insurrection of Aaron Burr | Fears of a Young Republic | 5

American History Tellers

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Jefferson and the Burke and Spares

There was a flurry of cabinet meetings in October 1806 and they laid out a very ambitious plan We're gonna try to arrest him We're gonna send a federal agent out after him. Within a week or two most of those plans had backed off except for sending a federal agent after him When you look a little deeper what you see is that Jefferson and Madison his secret James Madison believed in a very limited construction of the Constitution. There was nothing in the Constitution that said that The government could do some of these things.

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