I thought Jefferson was a liberal??? He sounds like a conservative capitalist pig here??? LOL
... when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
He WAS a liberal. Not a “liberal” cum socialist/communist/progressive/etc.
The modern “liberal” has sullied the term which used to mean maximal individual liberty and individual rights (including property rights and self defense).