Come to think of it, Jefferson would not recognize England as the home of the Whigs in whose writings colonial Americans were steeped -- John Locke, Algernon Sidney, Paul Rapin, Thomas Gordon, and others."The Declaration No Longer Expresses 'The American Mind'." By Ilana Mercer, American Thinker, 7/6/17.The essence of this "pattern of ideas and attitudes," almost completely lost today, explains David N. Mayer in The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson, was a view of government as an inherent threat to liberty and the necessity for eternal vigilance.
July 7, 2017
Government as your daddy, your benevolent pal.
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