However, Frazer, following the lead of Sydney Ahlstrom, characterizes Jefferson as not a Deist but a " theistic rationalist ", because Jefferson believed in God's continuing activity in human affairs.

Although the purchase was thought of as unjust and unconstitutional, Jefferson believed there was no evidence of unconstitutional actions taking place during the purchase of what became fifteen states.

Jefferson believed that a U. S. President did not have the authority to make such a deal: it was not specified in the Constitution.

Jefferson believed that political success at home depended on the success of the French army in Europe.

Jefferson believed that these acts were intended to suppress Democratic-Republicans rather than dangerous enemy aliens, although the acts were allowed to expire.

Jefferson believed that Natives should give up their own cultures, religions, and lifestyles to assimilate to western European culture, Christian religion, and a European-style agriculture, which he believed to be superior.

Jefferson believed assimilation was best for Native Americans ; second best was removal to the west.

Jefferson increasingly believed the problem was the traders and merchants who showed their lack of " republican virtue " by not complying and maintained until his death that had the embargo been lawfully observed by all US citizens it would have avoided war which after its repeal, three days before his term ended, soon followed in 1812.

Jefferson believed educating people was a good way to establish an organized society.

Stylistically, Jefferson was a proponent of the Greek and Roman styles, which he believed to be most representative of American democracy by historical association.

Jefferson believed that each man has " certain inalienable rights ".

Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence of the United States, edited a version of the Bible in which he removed sections of the New Testament containing supernatural aspects as well as perceived misinterpretations he believed had been added by the Four Evangelists.

A cabin on Mulberry Row was, for a time, the home of Sally Hemings, the household slave who is widely believed to have had a 38-year relationship with the widower Jefferson and to have borne six children by him, four of whom survived to adulthood.

It is believed that many stayed the night at the Teas ’ tavern, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Chastellux.

Hemings and Jefferson are believed to have begun a sexual relationship then or after their return to Monticello.

Tuckerton became a Port of Entry of the United States, but not the third port as is commonly believed, with Ebenezer Tucker appointed Collector ; his commission bearing date March 21, 1791 signed by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

Although U. S. Army Major Jefferson Van Horne is believed to have passed near the area in 1849 on his way to take command of what would later become Fort Bliss, the town is instead named for Lt. James Judson Van Horn who commanded an army garrison at the Van Horn Wells beginning in 1859.

Kościuszko was moved by the document because it encompassed everything in which he believed ; he was so moved that he decided to meet Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration.

Thomas Jefferson and other proponents of democracy believed that " Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness " are inalienable rights, and that it justifies the overthrow of the government.

He was a member of the Tertium Quids who believed that Jefferson and Madison had sacrificed true republican principles.

It has been alleged that Livingston ’ s case was damaged by then-President Thomas Jefferson, who believed that Livingston had favored Aaron Burr in the presidential election of 1800, and that he had afterwards been a party to Burr ’ s schemes.

" Thomas Jefferson believed Sidney and Locke to be the two primary sources for the Founding Fathers ' view of liberty.

Jefferson W. Speck, a Mississippi County planter, was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1950 and 1952.

In the 1954 general election campaign against Little Rock Mayor Pratt C. Remmel, Faubus secured the endorsement of the previous 1950 and 1952 Republican gubernatorial nominee, Jefferson W. Speck, a planter from Mississippi County in eastern Arkansas.

In 1967, Nunn faced his old classmate, Jefferson County judge Marlow Cook, in Kentucky's first Republican gubernatorial primary in many years.

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

* 1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia.

In these private meetings, Jefferson attacked Adams, predicted that he would only serve one term, and encouraged France to invade England.

* February 22 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated in Richmond, Virginia, to a 6-year term as president of the Confederate States of America.

* March 4 – Thomas Jefferson is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.

Although the 1800 election was a close one, Jefferson steadily gained popularity during his term.

The Embargo of 1807 was a series of laws passed by the U. S. Congress 1806 – 1808, during the second term of President Thomas Jefferson.

The Christian right points out that the term " separation of church and state " is derived from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson, not from the Constitution itself.

Jefferson designed the octagonal house during his second term as president and sojourned here in his retirement to find rest and leisure and escape public life.

In 1871, John Clayton was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives, representing Jefferson County and in 1873, he served in the Arkansas Senate representing Jefferson, Bradley, Grant and Lincoln Counties, also serving as Speaker of the Senate pro tempore for part of his term.

We do not know the reason why the country ‘ s third president — then midway through his second term — was so popular among North Stonington residents, although perhaps Jefferson ‘ s public criticism of the Congregational Church ’ s domination of politics and religion in Connecticut earned him the loyalty of the local Baptist community, which perhaps regarded him as a champion of their rights in a state that still enshrined preferential rights to the Congregational Church.

Founded in 1801, the town of Burrville was named in honor of Aaron Burr, first term Vice President under Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson, who had just finished his final term as Virginia's governor, responded to this query with a manuscript that later became his famous " Notes on the State of Virginia ".

Blind Lemon Jefferson used the term " Booga Rooga " to refer to a guitar bass figure that he used in " Match Box Blues ".

Jefferson may have heard the term from Huddie " Lead Belly " Ledbetter, who played frequently with Jefferson.

Classicist Bernard Knox made direct reference to this term when he delivered his 1992 Jefferson Lecture ( the U. S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities ).

They have as much right to membership there as in any of the other political parties under a free government .... No one would dream of censuring the Democratic Party because the founder of that party, Thomas Jefferson, was an infidel in the ecclesiastical sense of the term.

He was only the second governor in Arkansas history to have been denied a second term — the first was Tom Jefferson Terral, who was defeated in 1926.

However, U. S. Senator Jefferson Davis had died on January 3, after the legislature had re-elected him to a new term beginning March 4, 1913 ; his seat was now open.

Jefferson used the term to mean that Hooper had been a conservative when it came to declaring independence, and did not imply that he had actually been a Loyalist, but North Carolinians took it as a slight against one of their honored Patriots.

The term was commonly used to refer to the Democratic-Republican Party which Jefferson founded in opposition to the Federalist Party of Alexander Hamilton.