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Author of the Declaration of Independence and third US president, Jefferson championed an agrarian republic of small landowners, limited and decentralized government, religious freedom, and distrust of banks, armies, and cities.
Political topics
Thomas Jefferson leans further toward federal than 98% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Structure is where Thomas Jefferson stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Thomas Jefferson sits practically at the catalog median.
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Republican tradition that idealizes the small landowning farmer as the basis of civic virtue and liberty, advocating wide distribution of land, limited and decentralized government, and distrust of banks, public debt, industry and large cities.
Doctrine that organizes the state through a constitutional division of power between a central government and autonomous regional units, such as cantons or states, with their own competencies, independent courts, and mutual checks against excessive concentration of power.
A system in which citizens decide laws directly through referendums, popular initiatives, assemblies and recall of officials, instead of delegating to representatives, as in the Swiss cantons and classical Athens.
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Techno-SocialismRadical Left31%
An Austrian economist, Hayek championed the free market and spontaneous order, warning that central planning leads to serfdom and suppresses dispersed knowledge, becoming a reference of 20th-century liberalism.
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A rare society without a central state, medieval Iceland was organized by local chieftains and an assembly, the Althing, settling disputes through laws and private agreements in a decentralized system close to anarchy.
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