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Thomas Jefferson's Ward Republics and a Defense of Classical Republicanism
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Jefferson’s Organic Democracy and the “Salvation of the Republic”:
Cultivating the ‘Political Animal’ in His Ward-Republics
Brian W. Dotts
Indiana University Southeast
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Midwest Political Science Association National Conference
Chicago
20-24 April 2006
We both consider the people as our children, and love them with parental affection. But you love them as infants whom you are afraid to trust without nurses, and I as adults, whom I freely leave to self-government.
Thomas Jefferson to Du Pont de Nemours on the moral principles applied to the administration of their respective governments.
Introduction
Responding to Samuel Kercheval on July 12, 1816 regarding his concern over calling a
convention to reform the Virginia Constitution, Jefferson explained his dissatisfaction with its
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Jefferson’s Organic Democracy and the “Salvation of the Republic”:
Cultivating the ‘Political Animal’ in His Ward-Republics
Brian W. Dotts
Indiana University Southeast
Midwest Political Science Association National Conference
Chicago
20-24 April 2006
We both consider the people as our children, and
love them with parental affection. But you love
them as infants whom you are afraid to trust
without nurses, and I as adults, whom I freely leave
to self-government.
Thomas Jefferson to Du Pont de Nemours
on the moral principles applied to the
administration of their respective
governments.
Introduction
Responding to Samuel Kercheval on July 12, 1816 regarding his concern over calling a
convention to reform the Virginia Constitution, Jefferson explained his dissatisfaction with its
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