Word: jeffersonianism
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...lost image as the prototypical American, the sturdy pioneer who fed the nation's body and nourished its spirit with his fierce independence, his self-reliance, his courage. It is an image that burns brightly in the American imagination, an ideal rooted in the precepts of Jeffersonian democracy and articulated in the economics of Adam Smith-and it is sadly lacking on the U.S. scene today. Dour, plainspoken Charlie Shuman is himself a prototype of that image. "I'm an American conservative," he says with pride. As such, Shuman abominates the whole diabolic concatenation of controls and subsidies...
Unlike many constitutional controversies, the debate over crime and punishment involves the emotions and physical security of every American. City dwellers in particular, for whom parks and streets after dark bristle with potential danger, would argue that the safety of the innocent is at least as implicit in the Jeffersonian ideal of "equal and exact justice to all men" as fair treatment for the accused...
Having twenty minutes to speak, I used ten, by the clock in Burr, to explain the right (Jeffersonian) policy for an educational community, namely to teach responsibility by giving freedom in a framework of wise counsel and affectionate support. I then spent one minute on my "alarming frankness," namely, the insoluble problems of being a husband and father without allowing marriage to become an inhibiting jail--(by the way, I wish young Brackman would bring up three good children of his own before lecturing his elders on the responsibilities of fatherhood); and the rough go of being bisexual...
...growth of the American Tree of State. Instead of merely trimming the tree at its edges as the true conservative would do, or grafting on new branches as the liberal would do, Senator Goldwater would tear the tree out by its roots, leaving not the idyllic green pasture of Jeffersonian democracy but the torn black earth of destruction...
...outpost has long subdued the beast with a Jeffersonian blend of what its citizens call "small town living and cosmopolitan thinking." Except for the five years that carpetbaggers closed it after the Civil War, the university has forged a freedom that makes it the conscience of North Carolina and the most enlightened state campus in the South...