| The secret of the country's success lies, she thinks, in talking like Jeffersonians but acting like Hamiltonians. |
| The Jeffersonians believe that the best foreign policy is the least foreign policy, and would perfect democracy at home rather than exporting it. |
| Although lively debate goes on between the college's Jeffersonians and Hamiltonians about exactly how small the government should be, the general idea is that it should be tiny. |
| Jeffersonians decried lawyers and their common law tradition as threats to the new republic. |
| Political reaction to the message varied. Purist Jeffersonians attacked it as a reversion to Hamiltonism and as moving in a direction of enhanced federal power. |
| The Jeffersonians won, and the federalist Party disappeared. |
