Word: jeffersonianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political interest in the fundamental issues in government, in an attempt to replace the present emphasis on election as an end in itself, where principle plays so small a part, and shoddy party politics for personal gain, so great a one. He then proceeds to champion the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy as the true basis for American representative government, the foundation of which President Butler considers to be individual liberty, rather than equality. A practical step toward the guarantee of true representation, he feels, should be the revision of the electoral systems now in use; for Mr. Butler, like many...
...whose personal magnetism has overridden his legislative deficiencies, brought him, colorful, to a drab modern Congress. He bolted, bated Democratic supporters of Roman Catholic Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, stumped for President Hoover, but did not vote for him. This year regular Alabama Democrats barred him from their primary. "Jeffersonian (anti-Smith) Democrats" nomi- nated him to succeed himself on an independent ticket in the November elections...