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To: one_less who wrote (27408)9/30/2009 7:55:15 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 28931
 
>>Jefferson is is without dispute the most liberal president ever.<<

less, you have to put things in persepctive. Peoples positions have to be seen in realtionship to the times they lived in. Jefferson lived in the 1700's, you cannot expect him to hold 2009 ideals.

Yes, he was very liberal for the time. And he helped write a constitution that was the best form of social contract mankind had ever seen to that date.

But look at what the conservatives were doing in the 1700's: burning witches at the stake-lol.

Good grief.



To: one_less who wrote (27408)9/30/2009 8:18:59 PM
From: average joe  Respond to of 28931
 
Koan talks of slaves but Jefferson wrote on that subject to..."

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it."

Thomas Jefferson



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