The call by Gerald Holton and Gerhard Sonnert in the preceding article for government support for
Jeffersonian research that is basic in nature but clearly linked to specific goals raises several practical questions.
Many readers will be familiar with the Federalists' strident critiques of the
Jeffersonian policies enacted in the early nineteenth century, in response to British and French depredations against American maritime commerce.
"He has made it more likely that if there is an implosion in Iran internally through pressure or otherwise, it will not be an unknown
Jeffersonian democrat who is going to appear and take over, it will be the IRGC [Pasdaran] or another Ahmadinejad, and we will be worse off and the people of Iran will be worse off," he said.
This leads us to a very important, very
Jeffersonian, practice: record keeping.
Just as Democrats butt heads with Republicans over who to tax and who should pay down the nation's debt today, the Federalists and the
Jeffersonian Republicans were fighting the same issues in 1790.
These
Jeffersonian socialists knew from the experience of the Civil War that military conflict has centralizing and bureaucratizing consequences.
She will oversee BSMG's portfolio of community newspapers, including The Aegis, Towson Times, Arbutus Times, Baltimore Messenger, Carroll Eagle, Catonsville Times, Columbia Flier, Howard County Times, The
Jeffersonian, Laurel Leader, The Record, North County News, Northeast Booster/Reporter and the Owings Mills Times.
Dotts's focus is on the indispensability of ward-school education for the general citizenry in a thriving
Jeffersonian republic.
In the latest volume of his study of American power, The Age of Jackson and the Art of Power, William Nester argues that Jackson "dominated his age for many reasons but ultimately because he had mastered the art of power." Defining the art of power as "getting what he wanted, getting others to do what they would otherwise not do, preventing others from doing what they would otherwise do, and taking from others what they would otherwise keep," Nester argues that Jackson married essential elements of
Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian ideas of power to create "Jacksonism," which transformed American power through "the assertion of overwhelming, brute force," which, in Nester's view, ultimately damaged the United States (p.
It is a necessity to understanding how Thomas Jefferson's influence permeated the culture that gave rise to the First Amendment and how
Jeffersonian ideas became the standards by which religious freedom was interpreted and applied.