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Pros And Cons Of Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1909. Thomas Jefferson was the author of United States, and the Statute of Virginia of Religious freedom. President Jefferson was the founder of the University of Virginia. As a public official,historian,philosopher,and plantation owner, he served his country for over five decades. In Jefferson's writing he has refuse and forbidden a lot of things for example he refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. Jefferson refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large district of people unless those people would relinquish the right of representation,a right inestimable to them,formidable to tyrants alone. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people unless those people would relinquish the right of representation, a right inestimable to them, formidable to tyrants alone. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance , unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has neglected utterly to attend to them. Those are Present jefferson refused and forbidden. Jefferson inherited slaves from both his father and father-in-law. In a typical year, he owned about 200,

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