Friday, July 4, 2008

Thomas Jefferson died today – 182 years ago

Author (of the United States Declaration of Independence) and U.S. President (3rd, 1801-1809) Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 in Shadwell, Virginia. He said, “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." [And that’s why we technically live in a constitutional republic.]... Mr. Jefferson died on July 4, 1826 in Charlottesville, Virginia.



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