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I agree completley with your statements. Jefferson only wanted the best for the people, but he wanted the people to be involved in what was happening in our country. He wanted it to be far for all of us. He is the reason why we have such great rights today.
I see where your coming from but you have to think about even though we live in Hamiltons vison in some things like manufacturing goods, present day our world is trying to come up with ways to stop pollution and things like that because it is killing our planet. Jefferson did not want these problems to begin with.
I agree with you completely Margaret his words and promises he has stated in the Declaration of Independence are why I think his vision is much better than Hamiltons. I also agree though with one of the comments from earlier. It was very confusing about how he thought all men were created equal yet he still had slaves...but you have to think about also that he set them free, I think in the debate we saw in class it said 7 or 8? But he set them free over time meaning after he had slaves he let them go.
When thinking of America some think of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. They both had very strong rolls to building up America, but Jefferson had a much more stronger vision of America than Hamilton. For the reasons of individual liberties, equality, and living by what America is defined as in the Declaration of Independence.
Jefferson belived in freedom,the right to do and say what you want. He thought, "why be ruled by someone and live by what they want and have to say.", which is what Hamilton wanted. He belived America should be modeled like a British system, he thought being ruled by somebody was the best way of life. As for Jefferson, he believed in a Democratic Government, he thought the people should rule or at least have a say in what decisions are being made for America. When living in a Democratic Government you have those individual liberties. The people of America wanted to be heard. Jefferson gave them that opportunity.
Both men grew up poorly, and both became very sucsessful, but only one of them didn't turn his back on the poor. That man was Thomas Jefferson. He believed no matter what your background, we are all humans. He believed you should never look at yourself as someone less than another. Jefferson is not the man to judge. He set an amazing tone on America, a tone of equality.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. He lived by it, and did nothing outside of what the document said. By doing that he led us to a country of freedom. Stated by Jefferson in the document he wrote "All men should have life, liberty and the presuit of happiness." He lived by that and today us Americans live by his words.
We live in Jeffersons vison today. His reasonings for this vision is why I chose Thomas Jefferson over Alexander Hamilton.
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