Thomas Jefferson - His permanent influence on American institutionsVery popularly written, these lectures are seven in number, and treat respectively of Jefferson as revolutionist, democratizer of state institutions, diplomat, democratizer of federal institutions, and president, and of his influence upon freedom of religion in America and upon our educational institutions. Jefferson has not been entirely fortunate in his biographers, many of his points of view being so at odds with those of Europe that their effect has been distorted or minimized; but with Senator Williams his radical belief in democracy finds a sympathy rather whole-hearted than discriminating. |
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... King, so understood it. It is wonderful how everything goes back to this Apollo Room in the Raleigh Tavern, where Jefferson was one of the ruling spirits. For example, the movement towards a Continental Congress came first from New York ...
... King, so understood it. It is wonderful how everything goes back to this Apollo Room in the Raleigh Tavern, where Jefferson was one of the ruling spirits. For example, the movement towards a Continental Congress came first from New York ...
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... King's service, or had left England for Virginia rather than submit to the rule of the " Commonwealth." A distinguished Ex-President speaks of Mr. Jefferson as being "timid" and "vacillating!" He was more nearly rash. The reader of the ...
... King's service, or had left England for Virginia rather than submit to the rule of the " Commonwealth." A distinguished Ex-President speaks of Mr. Jefferson as being "timid" and "vacillating!" He was more nearly rash. The reader of the ...
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... King: "Accept of every commercial preference it is within our power to give," etc. Today, if Canada, or any of the British colonies give trade preferences to Great Britain, it is because they choose to give them, and not because of any ...
... King: "Accept of every commercial preference it is within our power to give," etc. Today, if Canada, or any of the British colonies give trade preferences to Great Britain, it is because they choose to give them, and not because of any ...
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... king with supplications — he has not dared to answer us; we have appealed to the native honor and justice of the British nation — their efforts in our behalf have hitherto been ineffectual; what then remains to be done? That we commit ...
... king with supplications — he has not dared to answer us; we have appealed to the native honor and justice of the British nation — their efforts in our behalf have hitherto been ineffectual; what then remains to be done? That we commit ...
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... King, and unthinkable to take up arms against his neighbors, had sacrificed everything he had in Virginia and gone to England — not to fight with her, but to live in peace — one of those noble souls willing and able to stand and suffer ...
... King, and unthinkable to take up arms against his neighbors, had sacrificed everything he had in Virginia and gone to England — not to fight with her, but to live in peace — one of those noble souls willing and able to stand and suffer ...
Contents
JEFFERSON THE DEMOCRATIZER OF STATE INSTITUTIONS CHAPTER IV JEFFERSONS INFLUENCE ASA DIPLOMAT | |
JEFFERSON THE DEMOCRATIZER OF FEDERAL INSTITUTIONS | |
CHAPTER VITHE INFLUENCE OF JEFFERSONAS PRESIDENT | |
SOME MINOR MATTERS | |
JEFFERSONS INFLUENCE ON FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN AMERICA | |
JEFFERSONS INFLUENCE ON OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS | |
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