...whole the best compromise that could have been devised, and kept steadily in view as his polar star, " the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies;...

...compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men,...governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;...

...compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men,...governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;...

...1984:959. 10 It is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government. . . Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state...governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;...

...of the East, that the states were the safest guardians of human liberty and called on all to support "the state governments in all their rights, as the...administration for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwark against anti-republican tendencies."8 It is problematic and bitterly ironic for many familiar...

..."Later in his first inaugural he said, '. . .1 deem the essential principles of our government, . . .the support of the state governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies;...

...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...

...principles of the American Constitution, and the Administration which ought to flow from them, such as 'equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state...political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, and entangling alliances with none/ The impact of Jefferson's first inaugural address persisted...

...compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men,...governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;...

...Republican creed into an American creed. It was the first important statement of American liberalism: "Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state...political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none." What Jefferson envisioned was an evenhanded, unobtrusive...