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To: gamesmistress who wrote (33125)3/6/2004 9:22:36 AM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 793912
 
I am reading a sort of odd but fascinating book about Jefferson titled, Jefferson's Demons- Portrait of a Restless Mind. THe author is attempting to bridge the divide between the old idealized rational Jefferson and the modern tarnished, talked the talk but didn't walk the walk man, to understand what drove him spiritually and emotionally.
Anyway, when I saw your prediction of a backlash, and the Hatch proposal, it reminded me of something Jefferson said to Madison:
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as it is a storm in the physical.
The author says that when Jefferson "bowed reverently before the laws of nature and of Nature's God" in the Declaration, he was not talking about a benign force, but something that could be brutal. He believed that man was driven by a "pugnacious humor" to struggle and reproduce like the cocks in the henyard who kill each other.

I like Orrin Hatch's proposal since it returns the issue to the states and the legislature. This issue will be messy, but no one can read history and arrive at the conclusion that rebellion and change are ever anything but, no matter how nobly or intellectually you couch the terms. Jefferson understood that.

That's interesting about the relatives speaking out being politically motivated. Nothing is pure and I guess that's what makes the sensitivity line so blurry.
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