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On New Year's Day, 1802, President Thomas Jefferson penned a letter to the Baptist Association of Danbury, Connecticut articulating his views on the relationship between church and state. This separation, his belief in majority rule, and in reduction in government continue to profoundly affect the government of the United States. Bibliography lists 2 sources. jvTJeffer.rtf
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and state that has profoundly affected this secular relationship throughout the history of the United States. This one act epitomizes Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, but no
more so than his nonstop affirmation that every person in the United States should bend to the will of the majority, including himself. Both of these axioms can be said
to be the cornerstones of political debate today, and yet there is a third. Jefferson also tried to embued American politics with an ongoing sense of responsibility concerning self-government when
he insisted on reducing federal taxes and reducing the role of the government. Together, all three presidential acts continue to be guiding federal principles, but with little difference than that
experienced by Jefferson himself. In Jeffersons inaugural address on March 4, 1801, he spoke of the needed for independence of all people, black
or white. This was based on the "sacred principle that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable;
that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws protect, and to violate would be oppression" (Cunningham 594). Unfortunately for Mr. Jefferson, his constituency and his majority, did not
believe in freeing slaves, and he was "stuck" with their decision. The student may consider the fact that President Jefferson believed so
in strongly in majority rule that his entire Republican-Democratic party was based on the "absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority" by all citizens of the United States (Cunningham
594). While it could be argued that Jefferson was talking about the electoral process, it may be in the matter of constituency opinion that kept him from freeing his own
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