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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Thomas Jefferson
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- Date: 31 Aug 92 21:10:28 GMT
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- In article <2094@usna.NAVY.MIL> potter@silver.usna.navy.mil (Mr. Jeff Potter (CADIG STAFF)) writes:
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- >
- >
- > Thomas Jefferson was a libertarian! Yes he advocated an 'agrarian
- >ideal`, however the burgeoning manufacturing sector had not yet
- >begun to explode during his presidency. It is entirely possible
- >that he did not forsee the explosion of technology and the resulting
- >benefits to mankind.
-
- It seems entirely possible that you have never read anyhting at all
- by Jefferson. Not only was TJ a great advocate of science and technology,
- but he was a "libertarian" in much the same way the Martin Luther King
- was a segregationist.
-
- > Jefferson was not anti-business though (although some would
- >consider eradicating protective business tariffs as anti-business,
- >I see it as pro-freedom). During his presidency he considerably
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- Jefferson switched his position on this issue and came down firmly on the
- side of protectionism.
-
- >downsized government. He shrunk the military and got rid of the
-
- The purchase of Lousiana and the war in tripoli ?
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- >How can anyone say that this man did not believe in personal
- >freedom and small government?
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- Personal freedom +small government != "libertarianism"
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- >
- >>From Jefferson's 2nd inaugural address:
- >
- >" At home, fellow citizens, you best know whether we have done well or
- >ill. The suppression of unnnecessary offices, of useless
- >establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal
- >taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to
- >their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary
- >vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from
- >reaching successively every article of produce and property."
- >
- >other quotes:
- > "That government is best which governs least."
- >
- >
- >Jeff
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