| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
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