If Jefferson founded the Republican Party what place do Democrats have in America?

Jefferson wrote his letter to long time friend John Taylor,dated NOv.26, 1798, which was in fact advocating that such an amendment be added to the Constitution.Thomas Jefferson who, just two years after the Constitution had been in effect, argued for a Constitutional amendment: “I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution; I mean an article, taking from the Federal government the power of borrowing.”

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge Spencer Roane, September 6, 1819

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.


When Jefferson assumed the Presidency, the crisis in France had passed. He slashed Army and Navy expenditures, cut the budget, eliminated the tax on whiskey so unpopular in the West, yet reduced the national debt by a third. He also sent a naval squadron to fight the Barbary pirates, who were harassing American commerce in the Mediterranean

Jefferson was a great liberal, in fact, America's first liberal president.

But then as most politicians when they gain office he seemed to lose his fear of govenment.

I guess if one is president he automatically loses some fears. Jefferson also borrowed some 15 million dollars to buy Lousiana and try as he might, could find nothing in the Constitution that allowed a president to buy foreign land and so Jefferson now like Hamilton was embarked on a loose interpretation of the Constitution.

You have your history and the historians have theirs.

That's got to be a real decider.

Anyway it seems you are saying that if both sides agree that something is good for the country the Constitution is immaterial. Good idea.

You have your history and the historians have theirs.

That's got to be a real decider.

You have your history and the historians have theirs. That's got to be a real decider.
Anyway it seems you are saying that if both sides agree that something is good for the country the Constitution is immaterial. Good idea.

You have your history and the historians have theirs.

Good deal or not, the conservatives screamed, violation of the Constitution, a waste of money, and worse they knew that soon that section would be sending liberals to the Congress.
When the vote for money came up in the House the vote was 59 for, and 57 against, seems close?
But I guess that a precedent had been set, if it's a good deal, the Constitution can be by-passed. And Jefferson probably feared government even less after the purchase. Why fear government when you are the government.

Why fear government when you are the government.

Did jeferson end up with a deficit or a surplus or a balance?

Well if the Constitution was designed to make big liberal government illegal, it failed.

But where in the Constitution does it say big liberal government is against the law, or big government or liberal government are unlawful?

The Constitution was written with liberal ideas from the Age of Enlightenent and Reason, and those liberal ideas appear in the Declaration of Independence written by a liberal, Jefferson.

Government was limited in power, not in size,

by the Constitution that gave the national government limited powers,

The state powers were pretty much destroyed by the conservative Marshall Court with Marbury.

Well if liberalism, big government and liberal government are illegal what in the world are conservatives so upset about?

Jefferson was liberal,

his Democratic-Republican party was liberal,

There are no Constitutional prohibitions against the size of government, or a liberal government, small government or conservative government.

Article One, Section Eight is a list of things the government can do.

The United States began as a liberal nation

and has become more democratic over the years .