Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson is a found believer in the human race. He knows that human beings have the ability to do just about anything they put there minds to, including governing themselves. The need for a superpower (like a king) is unnecessary especially if he is abusing his power. People are very intelligent to Jefferson, they have the ability to survive with or without a king.

To Jefferson all individuals are born with certain, "inalienable" natural rights because they are God given and God is the father of all human beings. Among these fundamental natural rights, Jefferson said, are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Jefferson knows that people have this urge to want family, freedom, and happiness. It's human nature. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, which among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.(1)"

Jefferson also knew that individuals are capable to make choices about how to conduct their own lives as long as they don't interfere with the liberty of others. People know what they want in life and they don't need the government to tell them what they are capable of or what they want in life. So if the government isn't conducting its job the way the people want it then the people can abolish their government and create a newer government that will be pleasing to all. "That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

In a direct attack on King George, Jefferson listed 20 instances when the king violated