Thomas Jefferson And Political Change

Certainly, the ancestors who helped guide and shape the great United States are a subject of allure to historians. In particular, one man who grew up who grew up in the Virginia colony around the mid 1700 's undergoes much dissection of his actions to better the emerging nation. As a matter of fact, voluminous literature examines his long public career and extensive comments on political issues (Ely Jr., 1996). By the same token, Thomas Jefferson is accredited with several, highly respected transaction in his career. Such as assuming rank of first secretary of state, vice president, leader of the first political opposition party, and even drafting the very document that aided America 's fight for independence (Thomas Jefferson: Establishing A Federal Republic, 2016). Although this may be true, other

Consequently, Jefferson had to preside over a government that had undergone its first change of power, but the nature of that change was altered by how Jefferson wanted it to take place (Bailey, 2016). In the various public offices he held, Jefferson sought to establish a federal government of limited powers (Thomas Jefferson: Establishing A Federal Republic, 2016). With that in mind, Jefferson also gave special weight to the Republican character of government, in which governmental authority rested on popular sovereignty and majority rule (Ely Jr., 1996). According to Jeremy D. Bailey, Jefferson was always subjected to contingency, thus strategic choices enveloped his conscious, yet his writings and actions reveal a politician trying to find a theory of executive power that would be acceptable to republican theory and would not be undone by possibly demolishing, lawful events (2016). Under those circumstances, there was inter battle between a politician always knowledgeable of the potential effect of his words and a theorist who wanted above all else to present coherence for future paths (Bailey,