Sure he did! Jefferson knew he was a bloviating tsunami of crap, just like everyone else. They were all philosopher kings, then they heckled each other and got down to the dirty, frustrating, pragmatic business of designing THE perfect masterpiece of human government. "Well, I didn't trust the Massachussets beast servicers" ... "We put that in because all the Georgians are servicing their Goat Gods in the blessing of Pan." "I think Rutledge is a drunken sodomizer ... but he has an ugly side as well .... ". "I think Franklin just soiled the entire second row of our Assembly with his urine!" "Jefferson is fond of aged Moorish men and he's likely off in pursuit" "Adams adores his nephews over and over and over". That's our legacy.