Jeffersonian
- adjective
- /ˌdʒɛfərˈsoʊniən/
- The next two presidents, Harding and Coolidge, were Jeffersonian Republicans backed by Republican Congresses throughout their terms.
- Jeffersonian ideology
- Jeffersonian ideal
- Jeffersonian view
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Watch on YouTubeAnd there is not a real choice there like in Jeffersonian democracies or in Israel.
- And there is not a real choice there like in Jeffersonian democracies or in Israel.
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Many political leaders today still draw inspiration from the Jeffersonian principles of equality and individual rights.
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Ron Paul represents an inward-looking, neo-isolationist approach to foreign policy that has more in common with classic Jeffersonian ideas than with assertive Jacksonian nationalism.
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And there is not a real choice there like in Jeffersonian democracies or in Israel.
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Our society still struggles with the extent to which it will broadly accept the Jeffersonian notion that the best should be available to all.
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In some of their public statements, the Maoists sound like Jeffersonian democrats.
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But the industrial agricultural system made the values derived from the Jeffersonian agrarian ideal impossible to achieve for individual farm workers.
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The Jeffersonian crowd appeared to Federalists as a "most signal exhibition of the rage of democracy."
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Sheepshead Bay makes Chicago look like the Jeffersonian ideal of yeoman farmers governing like gentlemen.
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A prosperous if not wealthy farmer, Wailes was in the truest Jeffersonian sense a free and independent man.
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Hamiltonian and Federalist ideas prevailed in the North while Jeffersonian and Democratic-Republican ideas were strong in the South.
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Etymology
Jeffersonian comes from the name Thomas Jefferson and the ending -ian, which means 'related to' or 'like' a person (as in musician or vegetarian). So something called Jeffersonian has the ideas or qualities of Jefferson, for example support for small government and individual liberty.