Crossword-Solution: JEFFERSONIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jeffersonian | a. | Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines. |
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| Synonym for "democratic" | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with JEFFERSONIAN (5)
That was a fight, I can tell you! None of your shallow, polite clashing of modern theories,--no talk of your Jeffersonian Democracy, your high-bred Federalism! They took hold of the matter by the roots, clear at the beginning.
Your castigating exposition of so-called Jeffersonian principles, and your relentless indictment of the resolutions of '98, were--were"--coughed the captain, dropping into conversation again--"were the biggest thing out.
When President Madison penned this message he was, in fact, making public avowal of the breakdown of a great Jeffersonian principle.
But nothing marked off the younger Republicans more sharply from the generation to which Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin belonged than the positive relief with which they hailed this break with Jeffersonian tradition.
Throwing Virginian and Jeffersonian principles to the winds, he affirmed the constitutional right of Congress to draft citizens.
Quotes with JEFFERSONIAN (3)
From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart of liberty. In 1789 the Federalists adopted Alien and Sedition Acts in a shabby political effort to isolate the Republic from the world and to punish political criticism as seditious libel. In 1865 the Radical Republicans sought to snare private conscience in a web of oaths and affirmations of loyalty. Spokesmen for the South did service for the…
Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.
Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.
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Appears in: Slate.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2001).