Word: jeffersonianism
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...some weeks before he drafted the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson used the more concise and definite sentence, "all men are by nature equally free." There is here no ground for the idea of equality of natural endowment, an idea which caused generations of Americans to consider it undemocratic, un-Jeffersonian, to question the natural right of any individual to remain an educational charge upon the public for as many years as he pleased...
...American educators are now alive to the fact that 919,381 enrolled college and university students, the product in too many cases of chance, fashion or fancy, are by no means the triumph of education which they once thought them. Instead, they are now seeking a way back to Jeffersonian democracy in education, a method of unscrambling the egg, a system which shall restore to higher education its democratic duty of confining its ministrations to minds willing and able to profit by care and direction...
...clipped mustache over unprofessorially thick lips, James Truslow Adams looks young (he is 53) to be the author of so many fat and respectable books of history. In 1921 Founding of New England won him the Pulitzer Prize. Other books: Revolutionary New England, New England in the Republic, Jeffersonian Principles, Hamiltonian Principles. Book-of-the-Month Club judges had no difficulty in making The Epic of America their unanimous selection for October...
...political interest in the fundamental issues in government, in an attempt to replace the present emphasis on election as an end in itself, where principle plays so small a part, and shoddy party politics for personal gain, so great a one. He then proceeds to champion the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy as the true basis for American representative government, the foundation of which President Butler considers to be individual liberty, rather than equality. A practical step toward the guarantee of true representation, he feels, should be the revision of the electoral systems now in use; for Mr. Butler, like many...
...whose personal magnetism has overridden his legislative deficiencies, brought him, colorful, to a drab modern Congress. He bolted, bated Democratic supporters of Roman Catholic Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, stumped for President Hoover, but did not vote for him. This year regular Alabama Democrats barred him from their primary. "Jeffersonian (anti-Smith) Democrats" nomi- nated him to succeed himself on an independent ticket in the November elections...