Word: jeffersonian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like a latter-day Jeffersonian, Federal Trade Chairman Michael Pertschuk argued that large conglomerates should be banned because "they increase their power at the expense of smaller and less organized groups, and of the individual." In Pertschuk's view, the danger is all the greater because of the difficulty in measuring the consequences of the steady concentration of power...
...citizen, just as the ordinary American will have to become ever more a student of technical lore. The learned elite will doubtless remain indispensable. Still, the fact that they are exalted over the public should not mean that they are excused from responsibility to it-not unless the Jeffersonian notion of popular self-rule is to be lost by default...
Saul K. Padover, distinguished American political scientist (Jefferson: A Biography, Thomas Jefferson and the Foundations of American Freedom), wrestles with these problems for 667 pages; the result is a fascinating draw. A self-described "Jeffersonian democrat," Padover exhibits an intimate and often lurid portrait. As an adolescent, Marx embraced Christ, then, in a long hysterical poem, identified himself with Lucifer. During the exhausting research and writing of Das Kapital, he was plagued by illnesses ranging from carbuncles to chronic liver inflammation. Padover shows the father of socialism distracting himself from the pain and humiliation of a carbuncle on the scrotum...
...Crane sees it, this nation's great wealth flowed from the Jeffersonian concept of the unalienable rights of man. Politics today has swung too far toward materialism and needs to re-emphasize our original purpose of sustaining the most just and humane society on earth. To Crane, that means helping the less fortunate but also glorying in unfettered opportunity...
...tranquil, law-abiding, prepared to solve its problems through calm discussion and the slow process of democracy. Italy is a very new democracy, and its citizens distrust democracy as they have always distrusted more autocratic forms of government. Sicilians came to America with a sage or naive disbelief in Jeffersonian democracy. You cannot trust government; you have to get things done by yourself, with violence, naturally. And the Italians have been right not to trust their democratic representatives who, unlike Washington and Jefferson, have been brought up on corruption and self-seeking as a way of life. Italians still lack...