jeffersonian
Speech parts
1. jeffersonian - Noun
2. jeffersonian - Adjective
Meaning
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines.
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Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the rest of the globe, and even though he be charged with provincial selfishness - to preserve America as an uncontaminated laboratory.
While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.
Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.
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.
Jeffersonian democracy