Thomas Jefferson
Cabinet Picks Clash: Washington’s Team and America’s First 2-Party System
โI would wish the debt paid tomorrow; he wishes it never to be paid, but always to be a thing wherewith to corrupt and manage the legislature.โ This slapback from Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson was aimed squarely at Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton....
Nullify: Thomas Jefferson’s Radical Declaration They Want You to Ignore
“A nullification of the act is the rightful remedy.” Thatโs how Thomas Jefferson put it in his draft Resolutions against the Alien and Sedition Acts. On November 10, 1798, the Kentucky legislature passed resolutions based on his principles. They not only...
NULLIFY THEM: Jefferson’s Rightful Remedy from the American Revolution
โA nullification of the act is THE rightful remedy.โ Thatโs how Thomas Jefferson said we should respond to any federal act that goes beyond the limits of the Constitution. But hereโs the thing – Jefferson wasnโt inventing something new in 1798. He was reminding...
Null and Void: Thomas Jefferson’s 1774 Radical Declaration
Two years before the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson penned a long and detailed list of grievances regarding British acts going back more than a century. He not only referred to them as a โnullityโ but pointed out that โwe declare them void.โ Jeffersonโs...