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8 pages in length. Jefferson's belief in a natural aristocracy served to influence his views on public education, elections and government in general in a tremendous way. Not only did he champion the cause against simulated aristocracy whereby the wealthy and powerful sought to rule the masses with unyielding restraint, but he earnestly furthered the foundation heretofore laid by Locke: Man is born into natural aristocracy by virtue of being a human being and living amidst the global population. No additional qualifications are necessary for this type of innate nobility, most definitely nothing that implies artificial power as cultivated by self-importance and oppression. The manner by which this belief in natural aristocracy relates to Jefferson's feelings about more traditional forms of aristocracy is such that - even though a member of a higher class himself - he was finely tuned into the cause of the common man. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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cause against simulated aristocracy whereby the wealthy and powerful sought to rule the masses with unyielding restraint, but he earnestly furthered the foundation heretofore laid by Locke: Man is born
into natural aristocracy by virtue of being a human being and living amidst the global population. No additional qualifications are necessary for this type of innate nobility, most definitely
nothing that implies artificial power as cultivated by self-importance and oppression. The manner by which this belief in natural aristocracy relates to Jeffersons feelings about more traditional forms of
aristocracy is such that - even though a member of a higher class himself - he was finely tuned into the cause of the common man. To place contrived
aristocracy at the helm of any government was, to Jefferson, the shortest path to social, political and economic implosion, a point he addressed wholeheartedly in a letter to Adams:
"The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government...and provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy...I think that to give them power in order to prevent them from doing
mischief, is arming them for it, and increasing instead of remedying the evil...Nor do I believe them necessary to protect the wealthy; because enough of these will find their way
into every branch of the legislation, to protect themselves...I think the best remedy is exactly that provided by all our constitutions, to leave to the citizens the free election and
separation of the aristoi from the pseudo-aristoi, of the wheat from the chaff. In general they will elect the really good and wise. In some instances, wealth may
corrupt, and birth blind them; but not in sufficient degree to endanger the society" (Jefferson, 1984). II. ELECTIONS Looking back to the election of 1800, one will discover how
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