Concept

Jeffersonian democracy

Overview

American political persuasion of the 1790s until the 1820s

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Jeffersonian democracy

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Carsun Chang

Related ideas

• Freedom of the press
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• French Revolution
• Elitism
• James Madison
• New Deal
• American Revolution
• Industrialisation
• Civic virtue
• Ronald Reagan
• Romanticism
• Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln
• Constitution of the United States
• First Amendment to the United States Constitution
• Supreme Court of the United States
• War of 1812
• United States
• Jacksonian democracy
• Alexander Hamilton
• Virtue
• Social liberalism
• Arcadia (utopia)
• Rembrandt Peale

Opposing perspectives

• Agriculture
• Anarchism and capitalism

Place in the tradition

Part of American philosophy.

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