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- noun Plural form of
Jeffersonian .
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Roughly speaking, these groups can be described as the Jeffersonians, the Wilsonians, and the
Reason Magazine 2010
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Roughly speaking, these groups can be described as the Jeffersonians, the Wilsonians, and the
Reason Magazine 2010
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Roughly speaking, these groups can be described as the Jeffersonians, the Wilsonians, and the
Reason Magazine 2010
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I was speaking of "Jeffersonians" ".." or it can change the Cs&Cs; at GC2009 to explicitly prevent a diocese from seceding.
unknown title 2008
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He may have been hypocritical when it came to human rights in his own backyard but, unlike many slave-owning, self-proclaimed Jeffersonians who insisted on states' rights as the slavery question grew ever more toxic, Madison could not abide the idea of dissolving the republic.
Hard-Headed Idealist Aram Bakshian Jr. 2011
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On the other hand, the Jeffersonians of 1800 would be appalled by the centralized banking and commercially dominated economy of the twenty-first century.
February « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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But Jeffersonians saw corporations as corrupt devices by which the king had granted favors to supporters; Adam Smith himself condemned corporations in "The Wealth of Nations."
Ron Chernow's "Washington," reviewed by T.J. Stiles Post 2010
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I am most certainly not a Jacksonian, and probably most aligned with the Jeffersonians; though none actually please me, or a significant number of Americans.
Economics vs. Populism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But Jeffersonians saw corporations as corrupt devices by which the king had granted favors to supporters; Adam Smith himself condemned corporations in "The Wealth of Nations."
Ron Chernow's "Washington," reviewed by T.J. Stiles T.J. Stiles 2010
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With Jefferson taking power in 1801, the Jeffersonians (including many former Anti-Federalists who opposed the Constitution) joined the remaining Federalists in supporting the Constitution.
North and Weingast, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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