...that the growth of cities would create serious difficulties for democratic government. He said : ' ' The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of government as sores do to the strength of the " Journal of Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional...

...opinion of commerce and industry, which created urban masses. "The mobs of great cities," he asserted, "add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body." Holding such opinions, Jefferson set out to enlist a large following in his struggle against the capitalistic...

...of fire between us and the Old World. He said that in May 1797. And he also said : The mobs of the cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. George Washington, the Father of Our County, ought to be a good witness as to what is traditional in...

...representative government and the clamoring voices of unassimilated hosts demanding Democracy. He said, "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do Co the strength of the human body; it is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic...

...the liberties of men' and that 'those who labor the earth are the chosen people of God . . . [and] the mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do the strength of the human body' (Bender 1975: 21). The Jeffersonian warning about the dangers of unrestrained...

...17805. He especially feared the mob, which, he maintained in Notes, had corrupted both the people and government: "The mobs of great cities add just so...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body" (165). Although he began as a Federalist, Jefferson became one of the founders of the Republican Party...

...things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered. 5028 ve this government cannot endure permanently, half...I'ma slow walker, but I never walk back. 6359 (jud 5029 Taste cannot be controlled by law. 5030 Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself...

...mechanics. He advised his readers to be content with letting Europe pursue manufactures, noting that "the mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body." 10 Nonetheless, Jefferson was too important an intellectual progenitor for the land reformers to reject...

...convinced him that cities were corrupting and unhealthful morally, politically, and physically. He wrote, "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body."9 Jefferson believed even Williamsburg, a city of only eighteen hundred people when he attended...

...them theit manners and ptinciples. The loss by the transporration of commodities across the Arlantic will be made up in happiness and permanence of government....great cities add just so much to the support of pure governmenr, as sores do to the strengrh of the human body. It is the manners and spitit of a people...