Jeffersonian democracy. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A superstitious belief in "Jeffersonian" property rights could serve as a useful commitment device regardless of its metaphysical merits. From Wordnik.com. [Normal Criticism of the New Deal, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
And this, coming from a Jeffersonian, is a big deal. —. From Wordnik.com. [Being John Adams - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
It is a utopia of human beings living together in Jeffersonian freedom. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Charles Murray on Ayn Rand:] Reference
After a few seasons of increasingly wild explanations, the show doesn't even try to rationalize why the Jeffersonian is CSI. From Wordnik.com. [mrissa: TV main characters: why do they suck so?] Reference
Rock, Howard B., ed. "A Woman's Place in Jeffersonian New York: The View from the Independent Mechanic.". From Wordnik.com. [Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840] Reference
Note 37: Howard B. Rock, "A Woman's Place in Jeffersonian New York: The View from the Independent Mechanic,". From Wordnik.com. [Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840] Reference
Jacksonian era - that is, the Jeffersonian backlash period of the. From Wordnik.com. [Darwiniana] Reference
"Jacobinism." as Federalists often termed Jeffersonian democracy. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
There really did seem to be something "Jeffersonian" about the Net; it was, somehow, obvious. From Wordnik.com. [Concurring Opinions] Reference
"Jeffersonian" democracy, but they were more concerned with the threat to their freedoms posed by intolerant fundamentalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Yeltsin himself is hardly cast in a Jeffersonian mold. From Wordnik.com. [Beware: A Threat Abroad] Reference
Think of it as Jeffersonian democracy -- Airplane, not Thomas. From Wordnik.com. [The Lonely Republican] Reference
And those battling Charles Taylor are not Jeffersonian democrats. From Wordnik.com. [Needed: An Army Of Builders] Reference
The American dream, then, is ... the Jeffersonian dream writ large. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Jefferson Enigma] Reference
Jeffersonian vision becomes all the more apparent -- at least as a starting place. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
This was the Jeffersonian plan, which did not contemplate territories, but states. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Even when protests are overtly political, they're not demanding Jeffersonian democracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Streets Are Silent] Reference
Jeffersonian Democracy, the promised land of Herbert Spencer, the abolition of government. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
Make no mistake: We're not talking about supporting advocates for Jeffersonian democracy here. From Wordnik.com. [The CIA Solution for Afghanistan] Reference
Unfortunately in this case again Jeffersonian theory did not accord with Jeffersonian practice. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
Even Deng was sounding somewhat Jeffersonian, with his talk of "Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong.". From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Thatcher's Munich] Reference
I ask that those readers who remain leery of the Jeffersonian focus concentrate on that last issue. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Improved conditions: America never really had a choice between Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian futures. From Wordnik.com. [Fly Me, Air Uncle Sam] Reference
Most are only partial successes; at the end of the day, these are not classic Jeffersonian democracies. From Wordnik.com. [Nation Building: Not for the Fainthearted] Reference
Others point to the chaos next door in Iraq as an effective advertisement against Jeffersonian freedoms. From Wordnik.com. [Iran Follies] Reference
We're not out there deciding we're going to turn this into a Jeffersonian democracy and build that country. From Wordnik.com. [Ed Koch: An Overriding November Election Issue: Amnesty for Illegal Aliens] Reference
As President Obama said Sunday, "Nobody thinks that Afghanistan is going to be a model Jeffersonian democracy.". From Wordnik.com. [Philip Smucker: Afghanistan: Fight or Turn out the Lights] Reference
Jeremy Waldron's and ask yourself -- is this result more likely from within the Jeffersonian or the Lockean view?. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
This is now called conservatism, but until the New Deal it was the Jeffersonian spirit of most of the Democratic Party. From Wordnik.com. [Labels Do Matter] Reference
Brandeis echoes the Jeffersonian preference for a norm of freedom, with narrowly constrained exceptions only when necessary. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
We're not out there deciding we're going to turn this into a Jeffersonian democracy and build that country. [email protected]. From Wordnik.com. [Reinventing Afghan real estate] Reference
States, expecting to ally themselves with the Jeffersonian party and to bribe or bully the American Republic into a lucrative alliance. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Between England and America] Reference
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