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A 3 page research paper/essay that examines the contradictory nature of Thomas Jefferson's legacy. Jefferson, American Founding Father who penned some of the most inspirational words ever written regarding principles of liberty and freedom in the Declaration of Independence, was also a Southern slave-owner, who failed to address the dichotomies of the Constitution in regards to equality for everyone, including women. These facts are contradictory and modern historians and commentators have sought to reconcile them. One way in which this can be done is to conceptualize Jefferson as the embodiment of a quintessential American trait, which is to be contradictory in deeply-held beliefs. Examination of this trait stems from the fact that American policy, since Jefferson, has operated on two distinctly different levels: the first being the level of ideals and the second being the level of politics. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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also a Southern slave-owner, who failed to address the dichotomies of the Constitution in regards to equality for everyone, including women. These facts are contradictory and modern historians and commentators
have sought to reconcile them. One way in which this can be done is to conceptualize Jefferson as the embodiment of a quintessential American trait, which is to be contradictory
in deeply-held beliefs. Examination of this trait stems from the fact that American policy, since Jefferson, has operated on two distinctly different levels: the first being the level of ideals
and the second being the level of politics. On the level of ideals, Jefferson was a leader of the Democratic-Republican party, the same party as Thomas Paine and William
Godwin, who looked forward to what they believed would be an era of "rapid social progress," which would seem the "extirpation of superstition, injustice, social privilege and political despotism," due
to the influence of reason and truth (Pasley 871). In regards to these ideals, they "denounced human slavery in all forms and promoted such causes as separation of church and
state, public education...and legal reform" (Pasley 871). On an level of ideals and goals, Jefferson fits with modern concepts of freedom, liberty and justice. However, Jefferson was also a politician,
and a pragmatic one. From its inception, the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with economics than ideals. The majority of people had no property, that is, were not landowners,
and they were excluded from the process of forming the government from the onset. The members of the Philadelphia Convention, which drafted the Constitution, were, "with few exceptions, immediately,
directly and personally interested in, and derived economic advantage from, the establishment of the new system" (Beard 324). In other words, the Constitutional Convention was all about economics, and concerned
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