Thomas Jefferson's Freedom To Disagree With Government Ideas

Jefferson’s Rule is that you do not have to agree with governmental ideas. It is perfectly acceptable to have conflicting viewpoints and you should have the freedom to voice your opinion and fight for what you believe. Thomas Jefferson was the voice for conflict in the United States. Jefferson desired federal state power, to keep the Articles of Confederation with a few amendments so that way, the government was not completely weakened and the citizens still had a few laws to live by. He believed in the people’s rights to voice one’s opinion, or rights to Liberty. As opposed to Alexander Hamilton who desired constitutional power. Conflict and debate over the constitution began when Jefferson so openly shared his thoughts on the constitution to his friend James Madison. “Prima facie I do not like it. It fails in an essential character, that the hole and patch should be commensurate. But this proposes to mend a small hole by covering the whole garment” (Pg. 5). The fact that Jefferson so …show more content…
Franklin D. Roosevelt had the intensions of bringing back the founding fathers intentions of the constitution after the civil war had ended. Martin Luther King Jr. pushed and fought for equal rights for African Americans, Lyndon B Johnston wanted to continue on Roosevelt’s ideas of quoting the constitution, Clinton tried to change taxes. These examples may have done good things that have changed the American society, but they did not prove they do not prove that the liberals understand the constitution better than the Conservatives. The conservatives on the other hand, certainly understand the constitution better than the liberals not only because they are the ones who wrote the constitution in the first place, but because the country was founded on a republican foundation. For example, the Tea Party protected the constitution for the benefit of republicanism and this