...subsidy programs. Starting in the mid- l 940"s, programs designed to save the family farm had the , that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. a chosen people whose breasts he has made a peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. "...

...zu binden, die Volksdemokratie mit einer bestimmten sozialen Figur zu verknüpfen: Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breast he has made bis peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which...

...in every possible way the Jeffersonian ideal. "Those who labor in the earth," Jefferson had written, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breast he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." To New Dealers, tenant...

...virtues, while condemning large cities. "Those who labor in the earth," he wrote famously in 1783, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." In drawing this distinction, he did not mean to dismiss the cultural and intellectual amenities of...

...Alexander Hamilton, opposed them. Two examples: Jefferson described average farmers in his America as "the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people," basically associated them with "virtue."21 On the other hand, Hamilton's view of the economically average...

...Charlottesville, Virginia, where he competed with his neighbors for the earliest harvest of peas in spring. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," Jefferson wrote, "whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue."...

...relation to the soil. Jefferson's often-quoted lines seem forever ingrained in the American consciousness: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has...

...American interests, and are alone to be relied on for expressing the proper American sentiments." They are "the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people," keepers of "that sacred fire" of "substantial and genuine virtue" that "otherwise might escape from...

...statement of the exalted place of the independent farmer. "Those who labour in the earth," Jefferson wrote, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." This version of the colonies and the early republic as a world of small, prosperous farms assumed that...

...of Virginia [1787], contains this celebrated passage filled with republican fears of moral decline: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit of substantial and genuine...