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After the 1936 Democratic convention, Davis killed off his aging Jeffersonian, interring Jeffersonianism along with his bones, and no less a Times bigwig than Washington Correspondent Arthur Krock wrote his obituary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Critics may point out that, however lovely in contemplation, true Jeffersonianism has not played a vital role in the U. S. since the rise of great industry.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Living Jefferson is not so much a formal biography as a defense of Jeffersonianism.

From Time Magazine Archive

The doctrine was pure Jeffersonianism, of course, and the professors and trustees sincerely believed themselves to be Jeffersonians.

From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary

Jeffersonianism endures, not merely because it is a radical theory of human nature, but because it expresses certain facts of human nature.

From The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures by Perry, Bliss