With due respect to a fellow Jeffersonian,
Jefferson had no influence in "framing" The Constitution.
He lived in Europe and served as U.S. Minister to France
from July 1784 through November 1789.
The Counterrevolution to nullify the Articles of Confederation
and to create a Hobbesian State based on The Constitution
was led by a few aristocrats. The official dogma is simply
explained "Those who own the country should rule it"
in the Federalist Papers by James Madison, "the father
of the Constitution", Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay.
Jefferson was the figurative leader of the opposition
(the Democratic-Republican Party) to the
anti-democratic, autocratic Federalists and their goals.
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Derek Neighbors wrote:
> > # If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples
> > then# you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an
> > idea and# I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us
> > will have# two ideas. -- George Bernard Shaw
>
> Copyright was invented in order to promote people sharing ideas. Thomas Jefferson, the key framer of the Constitution, compared ideas to a candle flame. He said what we really want is a scheme that would encourage people to share their ideas because, like sharing a candle, if I have an idea and share that idea with you, you can light your candle from that idea and you can take it somewhere else. I still have the idea and you now have the idea, and we can both make use of it.
>
> <emotion type="sarcasm">
> Of course Jefferson was a wacky tobacky communist.
> </emotion>
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