... the army, navy, embassies, and the bureaucracy. Along with this he pardoned the people put in jail as a result of Adams's alien and sedition acts. In a pre-presidential letter to a future cabinet member, Jefferson encouraged state's rights by stating, "Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government...The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best that the states are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign nation," (Doc A) a fundamental principal of Republicans. The Republicans are also very strict when Madison vetoes the Internal Improvement Bill. In his message to Congress he explains why he vetoed a bill that would create roads and canals for commerce between states. "But seeing that such a power is not expressly given by the Constitution, and believing that it can not be deduced from any ...

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