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	[[File:Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale, 1800.jpg\|thumb\|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]] in 1800]]		[[File:Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale, 1800.jpg\|thumb\|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]] in 1800]]

	'''Jeffersonian democracy''', named after its advocate [[Thomas Jefferson]], was one of two dominant political outlooks and movements in the United States from the 1790s to the 1820s. The Jeffersonians were deeply committed to [[Republicanism in the United States\|American republicanism]], which meant opposition to what they considered to be elitism, opposition to [[corruption]], and insistence on [[virtue]], with a priority for the "[[Yeoman\|yeoman farmer]]", "[[Planter class\|planters]]", and the "plain folk".<ref name="Wood, p. 100">Wood, ''The American Revolution'', p. 100</ref> They were antagonistic to the [[elitism]] of merchants, bankers, and manufacturers, distrusted factory work, and strongly opposed and were on the watch for supporters of the British [[Westminster system]]. They believed farmers made the best citizens and they welcomed opening up new low-cost farmland, especially the [[Louisiana Purchase]] of 1803.		'''Jeffersonian democracy''' or '''Jeffersonianism''', named after its advocate [[Thomas Jefferson]], was one of two dominant political outlooks and movements in the United States from the 1790s to the 1820s. The Jeffersonians were deeply committed to [[Republicanism in the United States\|American republicanism]], which meant opposition to what they considered to be elitism, opposition to [[corruption]], and insistence on [[virtue]], with a priority for the "[[Yeoman\|yeoman farmer]]", "[[Planter class\|planters]]", and the "plain folk".<ref name="Wood, p. 100">Wood, ''The American Revolution'', p. 100</ref> They were antagonistic to the [[elitism]] of merchants, bankers, and manufacturers, distrusted factory work, and strongly opposed and were on the watch for supporters of the British [[Westminster system]]. They believed farmers made the best citizens and they welcomed opening up new low-cost farmland, especially the [[Louisiana Purchase]] of 1803.

	The term was commonly used to refer to the [[Democratic-Republican Party]], formally named the "Republican Party", which Jefferson founded in opposition to the [[Federalist Party]] of [[Alexander Hamilton]]. At the beginning of the Jeffersonian era, only two states, [[Vermont]] and [[Kentucky]], established universal white male suffrage by abolishing property requirements. But by the end of the Jeffersonian period, more than half of the states had followed suit, including virtually all of the states in the [[Northwest Territory\|Old Northwest]]. States then moved on to allowing white male popular votes for presidential elections, canvassing voters more modernly. Jefferson's party was then in full control of the apparatus of government''{{snd}}''from the state legislature and city hall to the [[White House]].		The term was commonly used to refer to the [[Democratic-Republican Party]], formally named the "Republican Party", which Jefferson founded in opposition to the [[Federalist Party]] of [[Alexander Hamilton]]. At the beginning of the Jeffersonian era, only two states, [[Vermont]] and [[Kentucky]], established universal white male suffrage by abolishing property requirements. But by the end of the Jeffersonian period, more than half of the states had followed suit, including virtually all of the states in the [[Northwest Territory\|Old Northwest]]. States then moved on to allowing white male popular votes for presidential elections, canvassing voters more modernly. Jefferson's party was then in full control of the apparatus of government''{{snd}}''from the state legislature and city hall to the [[White House]].
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	== Jefferson and Jeffersonian principles ==		== Jefferson and Jeffersonian principles ==
	{{Thomas Jefferson series}}		{{Thomas Jefferson series}}
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	Jeffersonian democracy was not a one-person operation. It was a significant political party with many local and state leaders and various factions, and they did not always agree with Jefferson or with each other.<ref>Padraig Riley, ''Northern Republicans and Southern slavery: Democracy in the age of Jefferson, 1800–1819'' (2007) p. 161</ref>		Jeffersonian democracy was not a one-person operation. It was a significant political party with many local and state leaders and various factions, and they did not always agree with Jefferson or with each other.<ref>Padraig Riley, ''Northern Republicans and Southern slavery: Democracy in the age of Jefferson, 1800–1819'' (2007) p. 161</ref>

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	* [[Modern liberalism in the United States]]		* [[Modern liberalism in the United States]]
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	== References ==		== References ==
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	[[Category:Political history of the United States]]		[[Category:Political history of the United States]]
	[[Category:Political positions of presidents of the United States]]		[[Category:Political positions of presidents of the United States]]

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