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US
/ˌdʒɛfɝˈsoʊniən/
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ADJECTIVE
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relating to or characteristic of Thomas Jefferson or his principles or theories
Jeffersonian democracy
NOUN
- a follower of Thomas Jefferson or his ideas and principles
How To Use Jeffersonian In A Sentence
- And this, coming from a Jeffersonian, is a big deal. — Being John Adams - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
- Van Buren coquetted with the Adams forces for a year, and the old-line Republicans, strong in the Jeffersonian faith, brought themselves to the support of the Tenneseean with difficulty; but eventually both northern and southern wings of the Crawford contingent alined themselves against the Administration. The Reign of Andrew Jackson
- A superstitious belief in "Jeffersonian" property rights could serve as a useful commitment device regardless of its metaphysical merits. Normal Criticism of the New Deal, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- He that is not a Democrat is an aristocrat or a monocrat," one Jeffersonian declared.
- Note 37: Howard B. Rock, "A Woman's Place in Jeffersonian New York: The View from the Independent Mechanic, Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
- Restoring the people's ‘unalienable rights’ may well lie in Jeffersonian interposition and nullification, whereby states beat back the federal occupier by voiding unconstitutional federal laws.
- It is a utopia of human beings living together in Jeffersonian freedom. The Volokh Conspiracy » Charles Murray on Ayn Rand:
- That Jeffersonian sentiment seems to have influenced even China's normally strait-laced, rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), which has just wrapped up its annual session.
- That Jeffersonian sentiment seems to have influenced even China's normally strait-laced, rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), which has just wrapped up its annual session.
- This in turn produced a liberal theological reaction where in some Christian quarters a "Jeffersonian"-type de-supernaturalizing of Jesus was in full swing. Matt J. Rossano: Creationism: That (Not So) Old Time Religion