"Jeffersonian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... chapters of 'Progress and Poverty' its author saw the possibility of society's approaching the 'ideal of Jeffersonian Democracy, the promised land of Herbert Spencer, the abolition of government. But of government only as a directing and repressive power.' At the same time and in the same degree of approach, he regarded it as possible for society also to ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling
... subject to judicial illumination. Consequently he fell back on platitudes about judicial high-mindedness, and how judges could be trusted not to allow political influences to weigh with them when deciding political questions. Pushed to its logical end, concluded he, the Jeffersonian argument would prove that there should be ...
— The Theory of Social Revolutions • Brooks Adams |
