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- Thomas Jefferson: Radical and Racist - The Atlantic
- The eloquent Founder's original sin
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Concerning the latter, he writes to C. Malone 10 Sept. No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law.
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If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right. At the end of nineteen years, there will be a constitutional convention, at which defects in laws can be addressed and changes can be made. James Madison wrote a lengthy letter several months later 4 Feb. Even well-intended governments can still go astray. Jefferson writes in his Declaration of Independence,.
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Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate and systematical plan of reducing us to slavery [S]: Therefore, a government becomes destructive when its abuses and usurpations are 1 many and long, 2 directed to the same end, and 3 clearly indicative of despotism. For Jefferson, some amount of turbulence is one of the consequences of liberty. The manure of blood is needed for healthy governing because those governing will tend over time, Jefferson says to William S.
Smith 13 Nov. Moreover, those governed will assume mistakenly that rights once granted will be rights always granted. So, rebellion is the mechanism whereby those governing, Jefferson tells James Madison 30 Jan.
Thomas Jefferson: Radical and Racist - The Atlantic
The turbulence of which Jefferson speaks in the letters to Smith and Madison are illustrations of rebellion, says Holowchak a, 73—76 , not revolution. In contrast, revolution for Jefferson, following his Declaration, is a complex phenomenon. Unlike a rebellion, it is never to be undertaken for slight reasons or because of singular cases of governmental abuse. The difference, for Holowchak, is one of scope, size, and persistency.
Rebellions, often violent, are generally quick signals to government concerning abuses, usually parochial. Revolutions, essentially violent, are long-term, well-planned, complex attempts at overthrowing a government, deemed habitually abusive. Mirkin interprets Jefferson otherwise.
The latter, exemplified by the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, are larger, morality-grounded issues e. One thing is clear. Revolutions or elitist rebellions, for Jefferson, are larger, more persistent, and more complex than rebellions or populist rebellions. To John Adams 4 Sept. Habituated from their infancy to passive submission of body and mind to their kings and priests, they are not qualified, when called on, to think and provide for themselves, and their inexperience, their ignorance and bigotry make them instruments often, in the hands of the Bonapartes and Iturbides to defeat their own rights and purposes.
Moreover, the revolutionary generation is generally suited to begin and sustain the revolution, Jefferson continues in the letter to Adams, but not to resolve it. It is, for Jefferson, incapable of fixing a viable republican constitution. There are, thus, generational responsibilities for a Jeffersonian revolution to succeed.
The role of the first generation is inchoation. Subsequent generations must sustain and complete the initial effort to usurp the coercive government. In the final stage, there is implementation of a constitution, reflective of and beholden to the will of the people. It is because of the complexity and cost, in terms of human lives, that Jefferson maintained that revolutions ought only to be undertaken in cases of extreme, consistent despotism.
From the French, Jefferson learned that education ought to be equalitarian, secular, and philosophically grounded Arrowood []: 49— That education ought to be scientific and useful was emphasized by William Small at William and Mary College as well as his uptake of the empirical philosophers of his day and their disdain of metempirical squabbling.
When Jefferson, Pendleton, and Wythe undertook the task of revising the laws of Virginia in , Jefferson drafted four significant bills—Bills 79 to I consider 4 of these bills … as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of ancient or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly republican. Bill 82, the only bill that would eventually pass , proposed to disallow state patronage of any particular religion [BR]; [Au]: 31— It was the key to engendering the sort of reforms needed for Jeffersonian republicanism—reforms aimed at an educated and thriving citizenry.
It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of education,. He never asserted categorically that government for and of the people must, or even can, work.
The eloquent Founder's original sin
Experience had shown him that governments in which officials were not elected by and beholden to the people did not work—i. Given two classes of citizens, the laborers and the learned, Jefferson recognized two levels of education [R]: — The laborers—divided roughly into husbandmen, manufacturers, and craftsmen—needed to conduct business to sustain and improve their domestic affairs. Thus, they needed access to primary education. To Peter Carr 7 Sept. Needs are not all personal. People are, for Jefferson, social creatures, republics are progressive, and thus, citizens have political duties.
Education is critical. To promote both fullest political participation and moral progress, Jefferson realized that educational reform had to be systemic. In a letter to Senator Joseph C. Cabell 9 Sept. Only a system could offer all citizens an education proportioned to their needs: the laborers, a broad, general education; the learned, an education suited to their idiosyncratic needs Bowers and Walton Jefferson gets across that point to academician George Ticknor 25 Nov.
Overall, observation showed that human capacities were greatly underdeveloped TJ to William Green Munford, 17 June Consequently, education needed to tap into untapped human potential in morally responsible ways. As well might it be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable both in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth [R]: Human perfectibility, for Jefferson, was a matter of improved efficiency of living, which implied not merely progress in the fields of human health and human productivity through discoveries and labor-saving inventions, but also and especially moral improvement.
Moral improvement was much more important than exercise of rationality e. Pure rationality was a matter of humans abstracting from reality; moral sensibility was a matter of humans immersed in reality. Still Jefferson thought courses in morality were unneeded, if not injurious. That of course was consistent with the empiricism of his day—e. Nonetheless, Jefferson in Notes on the State of Virginia has a role for education in moral development. The first stage of education is not the time to encourage critical engagement with material like the Bible, for human rationality is not sufficiently developed, but instead a time when children should store historical facts to be used critically later in life.
Such elements teach children, says Jefferson in Aristotelian fashion, that. Because of the subordination of rationality to morality, education must be useful. It must engender effective, participatory citizenry and political stability. Jefferson always insisted on the practicality of education, because his take on knowledge was Baconian. Medecine has never before produced any single improvement of such ability. Yours is the comfortable reflection that mankind can never forget that you have lived.
Yet every scientific discovery is potentially fruitful. Useful implied socially and politically active. Male citizens of greatest virtue and greatest genius would contribute by participation in science and in the most politically prominent positions. Lesser citizens would contribute more modestly and mostly at local levels through, for illustration, jury duty, participation in militia, and voting for and overseeing elected representatives.
Finally, education for Jefferson was a way of living. Its aim was to give persons the tools they would need to make them socially and politically involved, free, self-sufficient, and happy. As Karl Lehmann —2 notes:. From each stage, man would have to move on in a never ending process of self-education…. The narrow professional who had but a technical knowledge of his little vocational area was a curse to him. Education had to be broad in order to assure the freedom and happiness of man. In that regard, he was the product, not ahead, of his time.
We find among them numerous instances of the most rigid integrity, and as many as among their better instructed masters, of benevolence, gratitude, and unshaken fidelity. The opinion, that they are inferior in the faculties of reason and imagination, must be hazarded with great diffidence. To justify a general conclusion, requires many observations, even where the subject may be submitted to the Anatomical knife, to Optical glasses, to analysis by fire or by solvents.
How much more then where it is a faculty, not a substance, we are examining; where it eludes the research of all the senses; where the conditions of its existence are various and variously combined; where the effects of those which are present or absent bid defiance to calculation; let me add too, as a circumstance of great tenderness, where our conclusion would degrade a whole race of men from the rank in the scale of beings which their Creator may perhaps have given them. To our reproach it must be said, that though for a century and a half we have had under our eyes the races of black and of red men, they have never yet been viewed by us as subjects of natural history.
Why Thomas Jefferson Rewrote the Bible Without Jesus' Miracles and Resurrection
I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks … are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind [NV]: Though he stated that Blacks and Native Americans had not been the subjects of natural history, there was a large body of literature by leading naturalists of his day—e.
That literature viewed Blacks and Native Americans as inferior to white Europeans, and the overall tendency was to associate darker skin with increased inferiority. Despite his view of them as inferior, he recognized Blacks, as moral equals of all others, had the same rights as all other men.