 | Morton J. Frisch - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 50 pages
...former." 11 Pursuing that same line of thought, Jefferson wrote to James Madison the following year: "I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done."'... | |
 | Christopher L. Tomlins - History - 1993 - 432 pages
...in the draft Constitution which Madison sent him after the closure of the Philadelphia Convention. "I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."89 Unlike Madison's federalism, however, Jefferson treated government not as a carefully... | |
 | Carl Boggs - Social Science - 1993 - 242 pages
...Dominion of every Part and Member of the Society."43 Addressing the American experience, Jefferson wrote: "I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors indeed more at their ease at the expense of the people."44 Perhaps... | |
 | United States - 1997 - 410 pages
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 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...formed after hearing and weighing every thing which the wisdom of man could offer on these subjects. I own, I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors indeed more at their ease, at the expense of the people. The late... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 pages
...judgment has been formed on all these points after having heard every thing which could be urged on them. I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. The late rebellion in Massachusets has given more alarm than I think it should have done.... | |
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The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm, than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in... 
