Posted on 05/31/2015 2:36:02 PM PDT by lbryce
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I pretty much agree with the sentiment expressed, and hate to be a party-pooper, but I’m afraid that the chances are very high that that is a spurious quote.
https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/greatest-danger-american-freedom-quotation
You mean like Jefferson did when he made the Louisiana Purchase without Congressional authorization?
Nothing in the Constitution about acquiring land.
Jefferson did check, found nothing, so he made the purchase.
Fail.
http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/greatest-danger-american-freedom-quotation
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Amendment 10 would apply. :-)
Well, actually, no.
Comparing the L.P. to Barak Hussein Obama's miserable, pathetic blatant in-your-face "stop-me-if-you-can" six years is such a pathetic exercise I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Without the Louisiana Purcgase there would not be a United States of America from sea to shining sea.
We would have Russian and Spanish neighbors next door.
No great plains with "amber waves of grain..."
No most powerful and largest Representative, powerful democracy in history.
What Hussein has given us is 6 years of incompetence, overreaching and embarrassment.
Want to try that again?
Of course, Jefferson would know about obedient slaves. He owned over 700 slaves in his life time
The man gave us the form of government we have. What do you have to say to that?
Exactly how did he do that. His name does not appear anywhere on the Constitution of the United States.
Neither do the names of any of the other Founders. Are you talking about the signers of The Declaration of Independence?
Jefferson was a talented patrician but hardly a conservative amongst the founders. Monroe kept him appraised of the direction the the constitutional convention was heading but he took no part being in Europe representing the new republic then operating under the Articles of Confederation.
He was enthralled his whole life by the glories of revolutionary thinking. Given a gift for lofty language he was prominent but hardly essential.
Both Adams, Sam and John, rate much higher. Add Washington and Hamilton and you have the best cooks in the kitchen during those years.
Jefferson was a strict constructionist but buying the purchase was simply too important to him to get bogged down in constitutional arguments. Sometimes you have to out-Federalist the Federalists.
Jefferson to John Breckenridge of Kentucky:
“The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less of incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The executive in seizing a fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of this country, have done an act beyond the Constitution. The Legislature in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties, and risking themselves like faithful servants, must . . . throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what we know they would have done for themselves had they been in a situation to do it.”
The only one doing that is you -- I simply said that Jefferson exceeded his Presidential powers. Even he recognized that.
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