| Jeffersonians denounced it as an unconstitutional victory of commerce over farming. |
| There was but one fly in the ointment: the Jeffersonians themselves seemed unwilling to acknowledge this, and Jefferson himself seemed to be regarding him with something like contempt. |
| Political reaction to the message varied. Purist Jeffersonians attacked it as a reversion to Hamiltonism and as moving in a direction of enhanced federal power. |
| The Jeffersonians believe that the best foreign policy is the least foreign policy, and would perfect democracy at home rather than exporting it. |
| The Jeffersonians won, and the federalist Party disappeared. |
| Although lively debate goes on between the college's Jeffersonians and Hamiltonians about exactly how small the government should be, the general idea is that it should be tiny. |
