“At no time, at no place in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United States to be a democracy. The Constitution did not contain the word or any word lending countenance to it.” PeopleStatesUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyConstitutionChosenAgentsConventionsSolemnCountenanceLending Author:Charles A. Beard
“Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.” GovernmentPoliticalPoliticsDemocracyMassSlavePossessionFederal GovernmentAristocracy Book:Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy: How Hamilton's Merchant Class Lost Out to the Agrarian South Source: Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy: How Hamilton's Merchant Class Lost Out to the Agrarian South
