Jefferson's Consent of the governed
Subtitle: convolutions of a doctrine
By: an address delivered at Monticello on April 13, 1963 by Merrill D. Peterson
Contributors: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Charlottesville, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 17
Subjects: Constitutional history; Politics and government; Views on representative government and representation; Views on democracy; Political and social views
Other titles: Consent of the governed
Description: Jefferson was devoted to the concept of government created and sustained by the consent of the governed and Lincoln later referred to the American political ideal as "government of the people, by the people, for the people." This timeless doctrine has undergone shifts, as the priorities of the governed have, from government of the people in the Jeffersonian republic, to government by the people in the purist democracy of Andrew Jackson, and finally to the New Deal welfare state based on government for the people.