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To: epicure who wrote (53176)	7/18/2002 4:38:28 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 82486

Ys, the Republican party of Jefferson was a liberal party which was opposed to the Federalist party of big business, and which was the progenitor of the democratic party under Andrew Jackson.

To: epicure who wrote (53176)	7/18/2002 11:25:57 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

If by liberal you mean a "free thinker" and by conservative you mean someone who thinks we should be bound by strong inflexible traditions then he could be called a liberal. However his ideas are very different then what most people in modern America call liberal, there not even like an 18th century version of modern liberal ideas. Some of his ideas (for example a limited federal government with a significant amount of authority left to the states) are, at least in modern times, considered conservative. Tim