May 20, 2020
WE'D BE INCLINED TO DEFINE SLAVERY DIFFERENTLY:
Hamiltonian Means, Jeffersonian Ends (Samuel Hammond, May 20, 2020, American Compass)
My American Compass co-blogger, Michael Lind, likes to portray America's development as a tug of war between the ideals of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson -- nation builders and industrialists on the one hand, and laissez-faire localists on the other.
CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY: laissez-faire
noun [ U ]US /ˌleɪ.seɪˈfer/ UK /ˌleɪ.seɪˈfeər/unwillingness to get involved in or influence other people's activities:
Posted by Orrin Judd at May 20, 2020 5:26 PM