The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
Nobody's lesser or greater; that's what our Constitution is about.
The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.
The Supreme Court is not the impetus for constitutional change - we are.
We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it.
Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it.
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.