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    detrimental to society‚ what responsibility‚ if any‚ do the citizens have to show their dissent‚ and what form should that dissent take? All of these are questions looking to be answered‚ with varying degrees of seriousness‚ by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Swift. Thomas Jefferson’s A Declaration of Independence may be thought of as a universal symbol of traditional American values‚ however in it exists several layers of meaning‚ each appealing to the reader and their sense of social responsibility

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    dollars and doubled the size of the country. B. Background Information/Major points 1. He was a Hypocrite and tried to make slavery illegal while owning 500 slaves 2. He had an affair with one of his slaves. c. Thesis 1. Thomas Jefferson was a hero because he wrote the declaration of Independence and made the Louisiana Purchase which doubled the size of the United States but he was a hypocrite because tried to make slavery illegal while owning 500 slaves. II. Declaration

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    the first ten amendments. It brought order out of the chaos that occurred when Adams appointed the Midnight Judges. Over the long term‚ it has affected many congressional bills that if passed‚ would not be constitutional. 2)What basis did Thomas Jefferson have for believing that American trade could be used as a diplomatic tool? Explain. Trade could be used as a diplomatic tool in many ways. If America stopped trading with certain countries‚ the thought was that those countries would cooperate

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    Regarding Shay’s Rebellion‚ Thomas Jefferson and John Hamilton would both have been against it albeit for different reasons. Jefferson would oppose the rebellion because of his faith in popular-rule. Hamilton‚ a strong believer in an elitist-government‚ would have opposed the rebellion simply because he would not have thought that the Shaysites were any different from the rest of the public who are uninformed and prone to acting out of their own passions. Jefferson had utter faith in the ability

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    slavery is in the United States. He encourages Jefferson to relate

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    history that Spahn’s Thomas Jefferson‚ Time‚ and History presented‚ was Gilbert Chinard’s Thomas Jefferson: The Apostle of Americanism. Published in 1929‚ Chinard’s text is a tome at nearly 550 pages and it attempts to study the mind of Jefferson rather than his actions. Although it is nearly 200 pages longer than Spahn’s text‚ it is actually a much lighter read and does not get bogged down in terminology and prose the way Spahn’s work does. Chinard’s work is a biography of Jefferson‚ but the most crucial

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    Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence.Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd U.S. president. Thomas Jefferson was a leading figure in america’s early development. Thomas Jefferson Served in Virginia legislature and the Continental Congress and was governor of Virginia during revolutionary war.Thomas Jefferson later served as U.S. minister to France.He was also the U.S. secretary of state‚Thomas Jefferson was vice president under John Adams. Thomas Jefferson was elected in the 1800’s

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    get things done. This was especially true in the case of Thomas Jefferson‚ the third president of the United States. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican party‚ a group that prided themselves on a value of a leading economic class of farmers‚ strong state governments that were loosely joined by a weak federal government‚ a strict interpretation of the constitution and a hatred of their opposing party‚ the Federalists. Thomas Jefferson also individually believed that America should stand clear

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    Thomas Jefferson as a politician believed in decentralizing the power of the national government and giving the power to the states. He was a firm believer in having a strong checks and balances to maintain order between the local and state government. Jefferson disliked the European system of established churches and called for a wall of separation between church and state at the federal level. (But this was hardly a new idea; Roger Williams‚ the Puritan-turned-Baptist founder of Rhode Island‚ had

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    Revolutionary Contributions to Stable Government George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were two important presidents who had an enormous affect on our nation’s stable government and beginning years of our country. Each made their unique contributions to a new government under the Constitution after the failed adoption of the Articles of Confederation. After the war for independence‚ the Articles of Confederation‚ began to fail because there was no direct effective way to to collect revenue‚

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