 | Lance Banning - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 264 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 Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done.... | |
 | Edwin S. Gaustad - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 268 pages
...rendered, as Jefferson told John Adams, "a bad edition of a Polish king." Jefferson also confessed, "I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive." His first and most basic objection, however, was to "the omission of a bill of rights... | |
 | Max Lerner - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 162 pages
...whole stress of The Federalist authors upon energetic government: "I own," he wrote Madison, "that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive." Madison had the advantage of being in the thick of things, with a radar that could catch... | |
 | Michael Moriarity - Law & order (Television program) - 1997 - 300 pages
...nation's spirit. Such a compromise fits into the needs of our governors quite nicely. Thomas Jefferson: "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. " Just... | |
 | Gary L. McDowell, L. Sharon Noble, Sharon L. Noble - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 350 pages
...strict constructionist in expounding the Constitution.43 "I own," he told James Madison quite early on, "I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."44 No one spoke with greater force in favor of what Locke called governance "by establish'd... | |
 | Frank P. King - Political Science - 1997 - 260 pages
...about by Hamilton and his supporters. Jefferson wrote, somewhat foolishly, to Madison, in 1787, that "I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."27 Jefferson meanwhile got things organized for another run for the presidency in 1800.... | |
 | Mary A. Giunta, J. Dane Hartgrove - History - 1998 - 348 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... 
