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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

  • Roughly speaking, these groups can be described as the Jeffersonians, the Wilsonians, and the

    Reason Magazine 2010

  • Roughly speaking, these groups can be described as the Jeffersonians, the Wilsonians, and the

    Reason Magazine 2010

  • I was speaking of "Jeffersonians" ".." or it can change the Cs&Cs; at GC2009 to explicitly prevent a diocese from seceding.

    unknown title 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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