WHAT WOULD JEFFERSON DO?

What Would Jefferson Do?

What Would Jefferson Do?

Introduction

In 1784, attending a conference in Paris with Franklin and Adams to market U.S. goods, TJ was quick to determine that the challenge imposed to U.S. merchant boats required more than marketing. Islamic terrorists renowned as Pirates were easily Mujahidin not out to enrich themselves but rather to convey out the Prophet's phrases, to battle the Infidels, convert the Infidels, subjugate the Infidels (they were prolific slave traders of Europeans), kill the Infidels. It all appeared very easy to them and they used their booty to buy more ammo and tools for fighting to continue Jihad. The Europeans for their part, especially France and England simply paid a ransom to their Islamic buds who utilised the cash, you estimated it, to purchase tools for fighting, ships and more ammo.

Analysis

First, we should work out if the rudimentary premise is correct: has democracy been a failure? For those in question, consider account Clinton, three trillion in nationwide liability and twenty conflicts and /or policeman activities since 1945. The two party system no longer purposes, and we are directed over as certainly as if we had anointed a king. Did you vote for the levy assesses that consume close to sixty per cent of your income? Un huh… I didn't believe so.

So yeah, democracy has been a malfunction in America. Now to the genuine inquiry: whose obvious error is it? This answer is easy too, it's our fault. Our ancestors went to conflict with the world's only superpower (Britain, for those who went to a public school after 1980) over a levy structure they advised tyrannical, and one that we would murder for. My metaphor of course, is absurdity, if we would kill for a decent tax structure, we would have one. Moving ahead, our ancestors again increased up over restrictive tariffs and were not content to let the government travel roughshod over the constitution. That second transformation, as some of us recall, was suppressed in blaze and blood. It was not so cut and dried as our modern propagandists (Trend, David ed, 1996) would have us believe - the North had a large number of patriots who spoke out freely, and of course, were suppressed brutally.

It starts getting actually scary when you study that second transformation, because despite the miserable excesses of the Federal troops who shocked the South, an alarming allotment of them were pretty good folks and would make good neighbors. They asserted to battle for the amalgamation, and the old flag; conveniently forgetting that those two pieces are based on a more significant piece: the constitution. Ours was theoretically at smallest, a voluntary union. My point however, is that even in serving an unjust cause, these men were morally superior by a quantum leap to the disgusting sybarites of modern popular culture (Yunis, Harvey, 1996).

So the malfunction of democracy in the joined States was a foregone conclusion, from that time ...