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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RMF who wrote (17817)	2/16/2007 3:35:44 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

There is always a danger in going to far with statements about how some historical figure would react to current political issues. He never encountered many of them, or if he did they where in different circumstances. OTOH its pretty clear that Jefferson did not want a very powerful central government that made most decisions. Its possible that in some particular modern controversy he would go against that trend and argue for the federal government to get the power and make the decisions, but the general trend in Jefferson's political though is clear, unless new circumstances totally changed his political and philosophical outlook, he wouldn't support quite a lot of what the feds do today.