Word: jeffersonianism
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...twelve years, the Jefferson School of Social Science had sent its students forth from a nine-story building on Manhattan's Avenue of the Americas grounded thoroughly, if not in the tenets of Jeffersonian democracy, at least in the ABCs of Marxism. Founded in 1944, the school flourished in its early years, hit a peak enrollment of an astonishing 14,000 in 1946-47. Sample courses: "Principles of Marxism (which postulates are valid for the U.S.?)"; "Guitar Playing and Song Leading I and II (with emphasis on the use of the guitar as a social instrument)." For years...
...Democratic Party, which in 1950 succeeded Ataturk's Republican People's Party and brought a liberalization of many Ottoman customs that had survived the Ataturk period. He was one of the country's best orators, and his phrases (and ideas) in those days had a Jeffersonian ring. Said he (in 1946): "Governments that do their work well should have no reason to be afraid of freedom of the press...
...needed when she set out on her swamp-draining expedition in 1953. The ally: the University of Washington's Bureau of Community Development, a $50,000-a-year agency which has produced an impact on life in Washington out of all proportion to its budget. Its updated Jeffersonian objective: to help urban Washingtonians discover that self-reliant, creative citizens not only can solve many of their own problems but also enjoy rich rewards in the process...
...have seen, it is central to the thesis that each new majority alignment does not represent a rejection of the doctrine and values of the previous majority but rather envelops them and goes on to something else. The Civil War was fought in the name of the Jeffersonian concepts expressed in the Declaration, and the welfare state was a modern reflection of Lincoln's concept of economic opportunity and growth as a prerequisite of freedom...
Hansen discussing his role in economics, called Wilson a true Jeffersonian Democrat, who adjusted Jeffersonian practices to Jeffersonian ideals in a changed society. He saw that a democracy could not exist in the sphere of uncontrolled capitalism, and swung the Democratic Party away from States Rights in a successful effort to save the system, Hansen added...