...[2] peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; [3|the support of the State governments in all their rights,...the most competent administrations for our domestic concern and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; [4] the preservation of the General...

...political: — peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none: — the support of the state governments in all their...surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies: — the preservation of the General government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor...

...political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their...surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of...

...political: 2. peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none: 3 . the support of the State governments in all their...surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies: 4 . the preservation of the General government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor...

...called for "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their...administrations for our domestic concerns," and "the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our...

...same time they each will be controlled by itself."3 Or in Thomas Jefferson's words, the states are "the most competent administrations for our domestic...concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies."4 Thus, most of the federal government's "few and defined" powers are enumerated in Article...

...Philadelphia Convention sat in 1787, and his first inaugural address as president included a call for "the support of the state governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrators for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies."...

...political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their...surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of...

...mandate to make the presidency more democratic and more subordinate to Congress, and he celebrated "the state governments in all their rights, as the...surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies." Jefferson made the president look like a democrat. He jettisoned the presidential coach and rode his...