Word: jeffersonianism
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Teddy Rooseveltian. The Senator is repeatedly asked how a man of his liberalism can fit within the G.O.P. In conversation last week the question came up again, and Javits said: "My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian. Besides, I have a greater sense of advocacy of business than most Democrats...
...Javits, the battleground from now on will inevitably be in the big cities. Too often, he feels, the American view of politics is obscured by a gossamer veil of Jeffersonian romanticism carried over from a day when the idealized American was a frontier farmer...
...does a nation such as the U.S., which professes the Jeffersonian ideal of "equal and exact justice to all men," balance the safety of society against the rights of the individual...
Burns adds a new "Hamiltonian model" to his previously well-elaborated Madisonian and Jeffersonian models for national government. He says that the Hamiltonian President--exemplified by the two Roosevelts--employs heroic-style leadership, intensely personal organization, and the expedient use of power to govern in the face of a disorganized opposition. Though he has a nasty comment or two for some of the historical bases of the Hamiltonian model, he apparently concludes that it is far superior to the limited-government, limited-President Madisonian view (William Howard Taft) or the strictly-majoritarian, party-rule Jeffersonian view (Woodrow Wilson...
...lengthening of the Congressional term of office will provoke reverberations of the old Jeffersonian belief that frequent elections are the best guarantee against tyranny. But in an age of mass communications and sophisticated means of sampling public opinion, annual or biennial elections are no longer necessary to determine the public will. The gentleman legislators of Jefferson's day could campaign at leisure between brief sessions; today's Congressmen have to steal time from heavy schedules in the capital to campaign strenuously in their districts...