Word: jeffersonianism
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Independent Jeffersonian Democrats for Willkie Wellesley Hills, Mass...
Marshall v. Jefferson. Professor Commager's book is subtitled "a study in Jeffersonian democracy and judicial review." For the most part it is an attack aimed at the Supreme Court. In his distrust of judges, Professor Commager echoes Thomas Jefferson's opinion that Chief Justice Marshall was "a crafty chief judge who sophisticates the law to his mind, by the turn of his own reasoning." When Jefferson became President, one of the first things he did was to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts, which he regarded as unconstitutional. Professor Commager thinks that Jefferson was quite within...
...mindful of the arch-Republican Gannett slant, growled: "If you want to make a political bureau out of a news bureau, you had just as well not open it, and you had better look for another bureau manager. I'm not a Republican. I'm a real Jeffersonian Democrat. But I'm a newsman, nothing else . . . and if I take over any news bureau, it's going to be a news bureau...
Quite a few things have happened, however, since the infallible Founders brought forth the perfect Constitution. They created a document that became a marvelous instrument for a Jeffersonian agrarian democracy, but that lost its quality as a testament under the stress of an expanding society. The Industrial Revolution necessitated a flexible interpretation of our political structure, a fact that the American public began to realize after prosperity remained around the corner. Individual initiative is possible only if individual despair is forestalled. And freedom for the individual to deal as an "equal" with a billion-dollar corporation has become an assininity...
...Toppan Prize of $250, for the best essay on a subject in Political Science, was won by Joseph E. Charles, of Cambridge, Mass. (Teaching Fellow), for an essay "The Party Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy...