{"title":"Origins of the Farm Bill","authors":"D. Imhoff, Christina Badaracoo","doi":"10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"THE IDEA OF A NATION BUILT BY HARD-WORKING, God-fearing farmers taps a deep nerve in the American psyche. In 1801, when Thomas Jefferson became the United States’ third president, 95 percent of the population of the young nation made a full-time living from agriculture. Jefferson envisioned the United States’ democracy as orbiting around a citizenry of yeomen farmers. He wrote:","PeriodicalId":333357,"journal":{"name":"The Farm Bill","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Farm Bill","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_5","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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THE IDEA OF A NATION BUILT BY HARD-WORKING, God-fearing farmers taps a deep nerve in the American psyche. In 1801, when Thomas Jefferson became the United States’ third president, 95 percent of the population of the young nation made a full-time living from agriculture. Jefferson envisioned the United States’ democracy as orbiting around a citizenry of yeomen farmers. He wrote: