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Article: Jefferson's Madison vs. Jefferson's Monroe. (personal styles of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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The so-called Virginia Dynasty of 1801 to 1825--the successive presidencies of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe--is generally portrayed as the period of America's republicanization. In 1819, a decade into retirement when he was thinking about his role in history, Jefferson described his election as the "revolution of 1800." He had, by the time of Monroe's first term, succeeded in popularizing his most hard-fought neologization, blurring the boundaries of meaning between two versions of one word: republican, which for a generation had described the simple dignity Revolutionary Americans prized in contrasting themselves with the vice-ridden effete of ...
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