Jacobinism

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• Jacobinism -- the doctrine of the ultra-radical and anticlerical wing of the French revolutionary movement -- was as much of an ogre to eighteenth and nineteenth century conservatives as socialism and communism were their latter-day counterparts. Lerdo de Tejada: Jacobin to liberal elitist
• By this time he had decided to act, and doubtless the fervid Jacobinism of the soldiery was the chief cause determining his action. The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
• Higonnet suggests that in the pursuit of universalist fraternity, however, Jacobin language lost its original libertarian meaning and that Jacobinism became a kind of sectarian religion as it moved from sensibility to ideology.
• His policy was modelled upon the worst of the panic-bred measures by means of which Pitt and his colleagues were seeking to suppress "Jacobinism" in England. A History of the United States
• This odd mix of Tea Party Jacobinism and feminist grievance has become Palin's operating style. Palin's erratic behavior mars 2010 elections
• Timothy Dwight, the fervently reactionary and comically pompous head of Yale University, was a strong Federalist supporter who predicted that the accession of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency would lead to "a frenzied dance of Jacobinism. Lerdo de Tejada: Jacobin to liberal elitist
• Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du Jacobinism, [Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism] Chronological List
• The foreigner gained time to anarchize by gold the government he could not overthrow by arms, to crush in their own councils the genuine republicans, by the fraternal embraces of exaggerated and hired pretenders, and to turn the machine of Jacobinism from the change to the destruction of order: and, in the end, the limited monarchy they had secured was exchanged for the unprincipled and bloody tyranny of Robespierre, and the equally unprincipled and maniac tyranny of Bonaparte. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
• Hamilton begins his defense by decrying the scandal itself, with much denouncing of "Jacobinism" the Jacobins, in France, were fresh in everyone's mind from the disastrous end to the French Revolution -- which was only a few years in the past, when Hamilton wrote this pamphlet. Chris Weigant: America's First Political Sex Scandal: The Reynolds/Hamilton Affair
• Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du Jacobinism, [Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism] x Chronological List