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To: Mike Bates

Jefferson wanted a lot of stuff in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence that didn't make it into the final versions. Too bad they didn't, but practicality and politics said they couldn't.


3 posted on 07/13/2004 8:10:00 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
Jefferson wanted a lot of stuff in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence that didn't make it into the final versions.

Most of the founders, Jefferson in particular would not be a fit for either political party currently in power. He would be reviled by Republicans and Democrats alike.

30 posted on 07/14/2004 7:00:18 AM PDT by Protagoras (government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." ...Ronald Reagan, 1981)
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