Jeffersonian Ideology Revisited: Liberal and Classical Ideas in the New American Republic

Lance Banning

The William and Mary Quarterly · 1986 · 109 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

R 5 ECENT studies of the Jeffersonian Republicans may leave some readers at a loss. The last fifteen years have brought a new interpretation of the character and sources of Jeffersonian ideas.' This republican hypothesis (to modify a term of Robert E. Shalhope's) is a consequence of previous reinterpretations of American Revolutionary thought.2 Like them, it places major emphasis on the persistent influence