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The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States: With ... - Page 343
by George Tucker - 1837 - 4 pages
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Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...government is the best, which provides the roost effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government ? The artificial...provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy. On the question, what is the best provision, you and I differ : but we differ as rational friends,...
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Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late ...

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 662 pages
...of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government ? The artificial...provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy. On the Question, what is the best provision, you and I differ : but we differ as rational friends,...
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Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of ..., Volume 4

Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1830 - 550 pages
...government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural arittoi into the offices of government ? The artificial aristocracy...provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy. On the question, what is the best provision, you and I differ ; but we differ as rational friends,...
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The Bible of Nature, and Substance of Virtue, Condensed from the Scriptures ...

Free thought - 1842 - 1124 pages
...of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government ? The artificial...provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy. Nor do I believe them necessary to protect the wealthy ; because enough of these wSl find their way...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 636 pages
...of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government ? The artificial...government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency. On the question, what is the best provision, you and I differ ; but we differ as rational...
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The United States as a Nation: Lectures on the Centennial of American ...

Joseph Parrish Thompson - United States - 1877 - 364 pages
...artificial aristocracy, founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents," he said, " is a mischievous ingredient in government; and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency." But an aristocracy of nature, born to rule, Jefferson believed in, as he had reason to...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1807-1815

Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1898 - 580 pages
...of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government ? The artificial...government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency. On the question, what is the best provision, you and I differ ; but we differ as rational...
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Socialism and the American Spirit

Nicholas Paine Gilman - Christian socialism - 1893 - 406 pages
...society. . . . An artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents, is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency. . . . May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most...
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Socialism and the American Spirit

Nicholas Paine Gilman - Christian socialism - 1893 - 412 pages
...society. ... An artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents, is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency. . . . May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 148

1908 - 604 pages
...of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural Aristoi into the offices of government? The artificial...government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency. * * * "l think the best remedy is exactly that provided by all our constitutions, to leave...
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