Word: jeffersonianism
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...commited Reaganite who often confers with Coretta Scott King and espouses Lincolnian and Jeffersonian principles, Kemp could woo Black voters back to the Republican Party and thus deprive the Democrats of their most reliable constituency...
...such an item of conspicuous consumption while he skimps on funds for Eastern Europe, education and the drug war. The behemoth jet towers six stories and may have crossed the line of common political sense. It will dwarf an airport rally in Omaha, and does not exactly fit the Jeffersonian image of a citizen Executive going modestly among his people. The designers had an inkling of something being out of proportion and put an exit door in the plane's belly so a President would not look like the Angel Gabriel descending from the clouds as he negotiated...
...curtained booths behind closed doors." Most people would assume that editorial had been written about Gorbachev's Russia in 1989. In fact, it was written about Stalin's Russia in the 1930s. Gorbachev is certainly not a Stalinist, but he is also just as certainly not a Jeffersonian democrat. We should examine his motives just as coldly as he is examining ours...
...convinced him that he must give up the business after Key West. "I'm successful only if I can walk away from it and deal with who I really am." He aims to retreat to his sprawling farm in Vermont, where he has built a private Stonehenge, a Jeffersonian library in the middle of the woods, a Japanese teahouse. Cross-cultural follies...
Funny, the laws that made it sedition to speak ill of the President and the Government contained no provision against flag desecration. Still, Federalist judges sitting at the time would have been happy to imprison any Jeffersonian Republican who abused the flag. Among the Americans the Federalists did put behind bars was the author of a placard that urged NO STAMP ACT, NO SEDITION AND NO ALIEN ACTS. And newspapers sternly denounced as "seditious" a group that burned not the flag, but the Alien and Sedition Acts...