Word: jeffersonism
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Says Edward Gersh, dean of discipline at Jefferson Park Junior High School: "The boys we recommend to Jim are the ones that are rejected by other agencies. I call them Unreachables. When Jim first came here, he said he wanted to work with the most difficult kids we had. I thought he'd be spinning his wheels, but I underestimated him. He managed to reach them...
...increasingly powerful state. From absolutist monarchy, Murray sees a straight line of development to modern "totalitarian democracy" via the French Revolution's Jacobin republic, which put the civil government in almost complete control of church affairs. To this day, French separation of church and state makes Thomas Jefferson's famous "wall" look like a split-rail fence...
...interposition agrument is not novel. Madison and Jefferson used it in framing the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions which condemned the Alen and Sedition Acts of 1798 as unconstitutional. It was their contention that the federal government was created by the states to serves as their agent. They reasoned that state legislatures may declare federal laws unconstitutional. From that time, though the South has recognized both the idea of the Constitution as the supreme law of the land and of the Supreme Court as the agent to preserve that law, it has refused to combine two concepts and allow the high...
...were again evident in the season's Omnibus curtain raiser, "He Shall Have Power," which explored the evolution of the U.S. presidency with a succession of evocative vignettes of its most forceful incumbents. George Washington, fussily acted by Larry Gates, fought with a Machiavellian Hamilton and a statesmanlike Jefferson over nonintervention in the French Revolution, establishing the principle of presidential supremacy in foreign affairs. A rasping, well-cast Jackson (J. D. Cannon) was seen raging against the National Bank. Webster and Clay replied in opposition and in kind, but Jackson torpedoed Biddle's "monster of corruption," firmly established...
...Equitable's Our American Heritage (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Not Without Honor, a historical drama, stars Arthur Kennedy as Alexander Hamilton and Ralph Bellamy as Thomas Jefferson...