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Jacksonian

Jacksonian

2 8.6
Relating to Andrew Jackson or his ideas about popular democracy
  • adjective
  • /ˌdʒækˈsoʊniən/
  • US
: jacksoniano
  • I have been a Jacksonian democrat all my political life.
  • Jacksonian Democracy
  • Jacksonian America
  • Jacksonian era

Examples

  • The Tea Party movement is best understood as a contemporary revolt of Jacksonian common sense against elites perceived as both misguided and corrupt.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Lee Benson's The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy is an example of this approach.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Any increase in Jacksonian political strength makes a military response to the Iranian nuclear program more likely.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The Left will continue to eat away at the Jacksonian tradition he claims to admire.

    Blog text (17)
  • That's the question that this poses for the Jacksonian generation.

  • Economic substantive due process review of state legislation was born from these Jacksonian roots.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Theologians in the Jacksonian era furthered this trend.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Intellectually, Jacksonian ideas are rooted in the commonsense tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The greatest nineteenth-century theorist of class legislation was Thomas Cooley, whose thought reflected the Jacksonian era's strong aversion to monopolies and special privileges.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Many modern political movements are influenced by Jacksonian principles of democracy and popular rule.

Compounds

Jacksonian epilepsy
  • Specialized
9.3

Seizures that start in one part of a limb and move along the same limb

Surface Forms

Jacksonian positive

Morphology

Jacksonian = Jackson (transparent) = Jackson + ian

The suffix '-ian' is commonly used to form adjectives indicating a relationship to a person, making the meaning clear.

Etymology

Jacksonian comes from the name of US president Andrew Jackson plus the ending -ian, which means 'belonging to' or 'like' and appears in words such as musician. So Jacksonian means 'of or like Andrew Jackson' and is used to describe his ideas, policies, or the time when he was in power.