| Peter Wallenstein - History - 2007 - 508 pages
...their own pursuits of industry and improvement." He called for "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;...administrations for our domestic concerns," and "the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our... | |
| Jeremy D. Bailey - Political Science - 2007 - 275 pages
...political: 2. peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none: 3 . the support of the State governments in all their...surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies: 4 . the preservation of the General government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor... | |
| Michael Tanner - Political Science - 2007 - 339 pages
...same time they each will be controlled by itself."3 Or in Thomas Jefferson's words, the states are "the most competent administrations for our domestic...concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies."4 Thus, most of the federal government's "few and defined" powers are enumerated in Article... | |
| Kevin Raeder Gutzman - History - 2007 - 256 pages
...Philadelphia Convention sat in 1787, and his first inaugural address as president included a call for "the support of the state governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrators for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies."... | |
| Matthew S. Holland - Religion - 2007 - 340 pages
...the most competent administrators of domestic concerns," "preservation of the general government ... as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad," "right of election by the people," "acquiescence in the decisions of the majority," "a well disciplined... | |
| Marc Karnis Landy, Sidney M. Milkis - History - 2008 - 41 pages
...mandate to make the presidency more democratic and more subordinate to Congress, and he celebrated "the state governments in all their rights, as the...surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies." Jefferson made the president look like a democrat. He jettisoned the presidential coach and rode his... | |
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