But they shared a Jeffersonian conviction that that government is best which governs least.
His Democratic-Republican Party became dominant in early American politics,
and his views became known as Jeffersonian democracy.
Jeffersonian Republicans alleged that if Federalist leaders had their way, the U.S.
would be recolonized by the British.
Federalists who supported George Washington's
presidency accused the new party in opposition, the Jeffersonian Republicans, of advancing the French revolutionary cause.
The belief that all topics are an integral part of the
American legislature's library became known as the Jeffersonian concept of universality.
It all starts with our philosophy of the citizen lawyer, the Jeffersonian ideal of the lawyer as skilled advocate and devoted public servant.
He took an active part in the new government, and in 1790 he was elected
to the Senate of the first United States Congress, where he joined the Jeffersonian.
Jeffersonian government not only prohibited individuals in society
from infringing on the liberty of others, but also restrained itself from diminishing individual liberty as a protection against tyranny from the majority.