Thomas Jefferson Response

A founding father

Thomas Jefferson, being one of the founding father of our country should be remembered as an amazing person, a person worthy of praise. But many people don’t know many things about Jefferson. Including myself, before actually reading and doing a presentation on Thomas Jefferson, the only two things I new about this person is that he was the person who wrote the declaration of independence and that he was in the tow dollar bill.

But Thomas Jefferson was way more than just this two things, from what I’ve come to read and understand after studying Thomas Jefferson is that, he was one of the most influential persons I he history of the united states, as well as the inspiration for many political figures to come in the future after him.

Even though Thomas Jefferson did as many amazing things as he could for the United States while he was alive, what not many know is that he wasn’t all that good of a person. Jefferson is famous for having the idea that he wanted to abolish slavery, but like all the other rich people in at the time that Jefferson was alive, he had many slave under his command to be more accurate, he had around 600 slaves. And Jefferson did not free any until his dead when he only freed a few that where his illegitimate sons.

Many also believe that since Jefferson had a big political involvement, like with the declaration of independence and with being president, that Jefferson would be a person who would follow the rules exactly by the book, that Jefferson would be a person who would follow all the rules. But we need to remember the Louisiana purchase when we think about this, because the most important real-estate deal in the history of the united states, deal which was accomplished by Jefferson himself. Was a big fraud and actually many would even cal it ilegal, because of many reasons but the main reason that makes this “ilegal” is that nowhere in the constitution