1. Federalists and Republicans
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2. Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose hearts He has made His special deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1787
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3. Republican Federalist
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government. Can a democratic assembly, who annually revolve in the mass of the people, be supposed steadily to pursue the public good?
—Alexander Hamilton, Debates of the Constitutional Convention, June 18, 1787
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4. Thomas Jefferson is a firm Republican,—John Adams is a Monarchist… Thomas Jefferson first drew the declaration of American independence;—he first framed the sacred political sentence that all men are born equal. John Adams says this is all a joke and a falsehood; that some men should be born Kings, and some should be born Nobles. Which of these, freemen of Pennsylvania, will you have for your President?
—Jeffersonian election statement, 1796
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5. As long as working the land is an option, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a workbench. For the general operations of manufacture, let our workshops remain in Europe. . . The mobs of great cities add just as much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners, and spirit of a people which preserve a republic.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1787
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6. [If Jefferson were elected]
[If Jefferson were elected]. . . the Bible would be cast into a bonfire, our holy worship changed into a dance of Jacobin frenzy, our wives and daughters dishonored, and our sons converted into the disciples of [the godless].
—Yale College President Timothy Dwight
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7. "Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice?"
-- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #6
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8. “The powers contained in a constitution… ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.”
-- Alexander Hamilton
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9. "I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army… They may be led astray for a moment, but will soon correct themselves."
-- Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787
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10. “I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground – that all powers not delegated [given] to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states, or to the people.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
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11. Republican Federalist
“What more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? …a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from labor the bread it has earned… I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
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12. “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige [force] it to control itself.” –
-- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist
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