...of March 4, 1801, one of which Bancroft inserted for Johnson to quote in his first annual message: "the preservation of the General Government in its...sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad." Richardson, Messages, 1: 31 1. See Message to Congress, December 4, 1865. 2. Charles J. Fox (1749-1806),...

...now committed to a doctrine, later set forth in Jefferson's first inaugural address, that celebrated "the state governments in all their rights as the...concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies."29 Madison's alliance with Jefferson helped revitalize a tradition dedicated to local self-government,...

...justice to all men, peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliance with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor; a jealous care of the...

...of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political: — Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none:...— the preservation of the General government in it's whole constitutional vigour as the sheet anchor of our peace at home, and safety abroad: — a...

...freedoms of speech, religion, and trial by jury, and avoid entangling alliances. And most important: "the support of the state governments in all their...concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies."2 lThe Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Adrienne Koch and William Peden,...

...government, principles Madison's design had incorporated: a federal government which was "the sheet-anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people ... ; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority . . . the supremacy of the civil over...

...men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;...abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable...

...men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friend' ship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;...and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of eleC' tion by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of...

...to its republican principles. Jefferson advocated "a wise and frugal government" and proclaimed his "support of the state governments in all their rights,...surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies." But there were also assurances that there must be "the preservation of the general government in its...

...men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;...their rights, as the most competent administrations of our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation...