Dbq Essay On Thomas Jefferson

Political disagreement has been apart of our government since the beginning. Thomas Jefferson has had an impact on these disagreements. Some people may think that Jefferson has set a bad example for future politicians, but I disagree. I think that Thomas Jefferson and his political colleagues set a good example for future politicians. He is polite, sincere, and sharp-witted. One reason Thomas Jefferson set a good example, was because he was polite. Anytime he wrote a letter, he always made sure that it did not offend anyone. If he did say something about someone that would be taken as offensive, he covered it up with big words. For example: “and laid me under the embarrassment of acting through men whose views were to defeat mine,”. He was saying that Adams just set him up and knew exactly what he was doing. This shows him as polite because he did not just come out and say to Mrs. Adams that her husband totally set him up, not caring that he was his friend of a long time. The way he
Whenever someone would try to tell him what they thought was right, he would do what he thought was right. In other words, he was stubborn (but in a good way). In document E4, Thomas Jefferson said, “On this I am not afraid to appeal to the nation at large, to posterity, and still less to that Being who sees himself our motives, who will judge us from his own knowledge of them,”. In this quote Jefferson is saying that he is not afraid to tell the people what he believes, even if everyone else is against it. This shows him as sharp-witted because he doesn’t care what other people think. If he had an opinion, he was going to stick to it. To be sharp-witted is a good example for future politicians because they need to be smart and able to make their own decisions. They should not make a decision based on what someone else is saying or if someone else told them to do