fat old gun nut said:"I may disagree with what you say but will defend to my death your right to say it" Thomas Jefferson
At any rate, I think Thomas Jefferson is an American Hero- he may have made love to a slave, one would assume consensually- maybe he thought of them more as people than others- if he thought of them as sub human, he would have, under such circumstances, been guilty of beastiality. I know of true racists that wouldn't come close to a black girl- they don't want to 'defile' their blood. Perhaps Jefferson was a revolutionary in more ways than one.
I don't knbow how anyone can claim that a slave having sex with their owner was at all consensual.
the issue of their being no direct proof it was Jefferson will not stop anti-Americans from trying to diminish the worth of this great man. He may have been an ass (your words not mine) or maybe he wasn't, but he left us with a wealth of writings about the importance of Liberty which we owe him a great deal of gratitude for.
I would have said that Jefferson was a consummate hypocrite... But I can go with your description.Mike Irwin said:And Thomas Jefferson WAS an ass of monumental proportions.
Too bad he didn't really believe what he wrote...
Sorry, just can't resist the low-hanging fruitThe Adams family. They are my forefathers.
Show me his writings wherein he believed the Federal Government had the authority to spend the funds to purchase the Louisiana Territory... I'll wait.Hugh Damright said:What did Jefferson write that he didn't believe?
You may not be aware of the fact that at the time emancipation was illegal.GoSlash, at what point did Jefferson emancipate his slaves?
I imagine you're not a big fan of Judicial review either. Show me a proposed amendment (written by yourself) curtailing it. That's pretty weak.Jefferson wrote a great deal on the powers of the Judiciary and its limits. He hated the decision brought about by Marbury v. Madison. Show me the proposed Constitutional Amemndment (authored by Jefferson) which would have curtailed the power of Judicial Review....