Thomas Jefferson: Individual Liberty And Social Reform

Thomas Jefferson was all about reform. He believed that this country was in need of a great change and knew how he could make a difference. Jefferson was forced to mature early leaving him with no choice but to run his household at a very young age. He was left to run 10,000 acres of land and one to two hundred slaves. Jefferson was a kind person, he was even kind to his slaves; he learned a lot from his responsibilities and even from his slaves. The knowledge he gained he applied it later on into his career. Thomas Jefferson is known to be one of the greatest philosophers because of his ambition and his great ideas which he had no shame expressing with the public. Thomas Jefferson was full of enlightening ideas, he wanted to use those ideas to reform our country politically economically and socially. He stood out most with his political reform, he encouraged distribution of land in order to gain human liberty. He also reformed their respective state systems of education. He believed that their citizens had the right and should be educated no matter their circumstances or their status in
life. As stated in The American Political Tradition by Richard Hofstadter “ You and I and congress and assemblies, judges and governors shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature in spite of individual expectation”. He explains how Jefferson began to see the injustice in our government and compared them to heartless wild animals Thomas Jefferson’s ideals of individual liberty, democracy and economic equality emphasizes the United state’s political culture.
Jefferson believed in minimal federal control, he felt that individual states should do as they please on their own territory. He also felt that centralized power was unnecessary, he ended up supporting the cause because he realized he could fix the issue from the inside. Thomas Jefferson's differences were bound to start a revolution, i say this because he was going against all the top notches in congress and he was basically contradicting everything they stood for. As stated in The American Political Tradition “ It would be useful in moderating the warmer spirits and promoting a wholesome and practicable reformation only”, Hofstadter tries to portray Thomas Jefferson’s eagerness for reform and how he meant what he said about keeping it
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Thomas Jefferson was afraid of power, he believed that “power corrupts those who has it” later overcoming that fear which later lead him into presidency. Jefferson wanted to unite federalists and republicans which was going to be hard. He later found himself to be in a social democracy which is a political principle that supports economic and social engagements. He tried so hard to tame the federal judiciary, that’s why he was such a well respected philosopher.
Soon after Jefferson kept his promise, he successfully demolished the federal machinery by eliminating the expenses which was a rebellious move. Despite all the animosity