History of selecting men for office

 

“In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide.”

 

 

By: Noah Webster

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate – look to his character… When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor, he betrays the interest of his country.

Part 9 : Thomas Jefferson

Part 8 : Thomas Jefferson

Part 7 : Thomas Jefferson

Part 6 : Thomas Jefferson

Part 5 : Thomas Jefferson

Part 4: Thomas Jefferson

Part 3: Thomas Jefferson

Part 2 : Thomas Jefferson

Colonial Williamsburg's Bill Barker portrayed Thomas Jefferson at a program jointly hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University.

Part 1 : Thomas Jefferson

Colonial Williamsburg's Bill Barker portrayed Thomas Jefferson at a program jointly hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University.

Thinking Totalitarianism :

           Nisbet’s Critique of Rousseau’s Political Philosophy

Nisbet argues that one can only understand the rise of authoritarianism and totalitarianism by first understanding Rousseau’s political philosophy. Nisbet characterizes Rousseau as a world-historic philosopher “from [whom] comes most of the intellectual devotion to the State that has made the political mentality so influential in social and moral thought during the past century and a half.” (Nisbet, p.153)
Nisbet identifies three key themes in Rousseau’s system that he believes taken together constitute both the ideology and the strategy underlying the momentous expansion and centralization of political power running through the 19th and 20th centuries. These are social individualism, political authoritarianism and humanitarianism.