Word: jeffersonian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burns adds a new "Hamiltonian model" to his previously well-elaborated Madisonian and Jeffersonian models for national government. He says that the Hamiltonian President--exemplified by the two Roosevelts--employs heroic-style leadership, intensely personal organization, and the expedient use of power to govern in the face of a disorganized opposition. Though he has a nasty comment or two for some of the historical bases of the Hamiltonian model, he apparently concludes that it is far superior to the limited-government, limited-President Madisonian view (William Howard Taft) or the strictly-majoritarian, party-rule Jeffersonian view (Woodrow Wilson...
...lengthening of the Congressional term of office will provoke reverberations of the old Jeffersonian belief that frequent elections are the best guarantee against tyranny. But in an age of mass communications and sophisticated means of sampling public opinion, annual or biennial elections are no longer necessary to determine the public will. The gentleman legislators of Jefferson's day could campaign at leisure between brief sessions; today's Congressmen have to steal time from heavy schedules in the capital to campaign strenuously in their districts...
...lost image as the prototypical American, the sturdy pioneer who fed the nation's body and nourished its spirit with his fierce independence, his self-reliance, his courage. It is an image that burns brightly in the American imagination, an ideal rooted in the precepts of Jeffersonian democracy and articulated in the economics of Adam Smith-and it is sadly lacking on the U.S. scene today. Dour, plainspoken Charlie Shuman is himself a prototype of that image. "I'm an American conservative," he says with pride. As such, Shuman abominates the whole diabolic concatenation of controls and subsidies...
Unlike many constitutional controversies, the debate over crime and punishment involves the emotions and physical security of every American. City dwellers in particular, for whom parks and streets after dark bristle with potential danger, would argue that the safety of the innocent is at least as implicit in the Jeffersonian ideal of "equal and exact justice to all men" as fair treatment for the accused...
Having twenty minutes to speak, I used ten, by the clock in Burr, to explain the right (Jeffersonian) policy for an educational community, namely to teach responsibility by giving freedom in a framework of wise counsel and affectionate support. I then spent one minute on my "alarming frankness," namely, the insoluble problems of being a husband and father without allowing marriage to become an inhibiting jail--(by the way, I wish young Brackman would bring up three good children of his own before lecturing his elders on the responsibilities of fatherhood); and the rough go of being bisexual...