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From the beginning, Americans have looked with special favor on Thomas Jefferson, who penned the immortal words of our Declaration of Independence. With great eloquence, he dedicated our nation to the proposition that all men are created equal, endowed with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson is under attack by the left, even at his former home, where his accomplishments as Founding Father take a back seat.
Thomas Jefferson, (born April 2 [April 13, New Style], 1743, Shadwell, Virginia [U.S.]—died July 4, 1826, Monticello, Virginia, U.S.), draftsman of the Declaration of Independence of the United States and the nation’s first secretary of state (1789–94) and second vice president (1797–1801) and, as the third president (1801–09), the statesman responsible for the Louisiana Purchase. An early advocate of total separation of church and state, he also was the founder and architect of the University of Virginia and the most eloquent American proponent of individual freedom as the core mea...
James Madison (1751-1836) James Madison was the fourth President of the United States, serving in that capacity from 1809 until 1817. Before that, he ha...
The slavery compromises included in the Constitution are prudentialcompromises rather than a surrender of principle.