Word: jeffersonianism
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...earliest society where freedom of thought and its expression flourished on a scale never known before, and rarely equaled since." Yet Athenian democracy also put Socrates on trial for speaking his mind and voted to execute him for his "crimes." This horrified Stone, and, he writes, "shook my Jeffersonian faith in the common man." The Trial of Socrates is the result of his effort to understand, if not excuse, how Athens could have besmirched its good name and that of democracy by killing Socrates...
...Midwest, the actors have discovered that while most of their audiences sympathize with the populist views of Jefferson, they actually vote for Hamilton, whose vision of a strong central government they find more realistic. "I've come to the conclusion that we live in a Hamiltonian nation with a Jeffersonian rhetoric," says Jenkinson ruefully...
...believe in his own greatness too early. It gave him the self-confidence that turns to bombast. Much of his work is thin and overstretched. In the insecurities that underlay his rhetorical sweep, West remained somewhat provincial, but the big historical "machines" he painted for English clients partake of Jeffersonian ideas precisely because those ideas were also current in Europe -- particularly the notion that the morality of republican Rome, its emphasis on pietas, obligation and memory, plainness and bravery, could underwrite a new republican state...
...concerns of the rest of America, one where politicians spend most of their time squabbling among themselves. Young was describing the period of American history at the beginning of the 19th Century known as the "Era of Good Feelings." Today the politicians of Washington seem remarkably similar to their Jeffersonian-era ancestors. Lawmakers squabble among themselves for committee assignments, everyone wants to know who knew what and when, and rather than actually venturing into the hinterlands, polls keep the legislative and executive branches informed on national trends...
...gate to the property. Inside the Georgian-style house, paintings by Monet and Renoir adorn the walls, and valuable works dot a nearby sculpture garden. Recently Boesky applied to local town planners for permission to add a dome to the residence, to give it, said his architect, a more "Jeffersonian look...