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To: allmendream

He openly advocated a second revolution to throw out the constitution in favor of a more “proletarian” and democratic form of government.


29 posted on 10/28/2008 7:46:29 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950
Proletarian?

That is a phrase popularized by Karl Marx. Unless you have a quote from Jefferson using that phrase I think you are fooling yourself.

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.” —Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:429

31 posted on 10/28/2008 7:53:21 AM PDT by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed.... so how could it be Redistributed?)
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