Also see my earlier post from the Federalist Papers via Hamilton. (I can find a simialar excerpt from Madsion if pressed.) Your Saundefur understands the Declaration and the Constitution like a modern day liberal, which is to say according to his own interpretation and worldview. People like me prefer Jefferson, Hamilton and Madison's interpretation.
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“Please! Jefferson is widely considered the author of the Declaration. He is also the author of the Kentucky Resolution. Did Jefferson misunderstand the Declaration?”
Please, southern secession defenders always fall back on Jefferson and the Kentucky ResolutionS and try to make some direct connection between them and the Declaration. The Kentucky Resolutions were pure Jefferson while the Declaration of Independence had four other immediate collaborators Adams, Franklin, Sherman and Livingston. Jefferson was sellected to write it. You can thank him for his ability to articulate so beatifully the ideas hashed out by all five of them and put them to paper. Franklin and Adams made about 48 corrections(including the insertion of three complete paragraphs) to the original draft and it went on to be reworked by the entire continental congress(making thirty-nine additional revisions). The thoughts reflected in the Declaration were not Jeffersons own. He wrote it. He didn’t author it. Ironic don’t you think that if Jefferson HAD his way, a condemnation of slavery would have been written into the Declaration. Notice btw that the Kentucky Resolutions were submitted to all the other states and rejected. As for Hamilton he, in response to the simular Virginia Resolution, wanted to send troops into that state “to act upon the laws and put Virginia to the Test of resistance.”