Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

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.

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A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

Ever since the fire of 1812 destroyed the beautiful furniture assembled by President Thomas Jefferson, the White House has collected a hodgepodge of period pieces, few of them authentic or aesthetic.

Arnold Hayes, Mary Ann Shay, and Lloyd Satterfield of Thomas Jefferson ; ;

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

Thomas Jefferson had tried to bring a French mechanic ( almost certainly Blanc ) and his methods to America in 1785, but the project never went anywhere.

The American Thomas Jefferson was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the notion that farmers are “ the most valuable citizens ” and the truest republicans.

His labor theory of value influenced the thinking of Thomas Jefferson, who in turn shaped the way many nineteenth-century American homesteaders understood ownership of their farms.

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

* 1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D. C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.

Opposition to them resulted in the highly controversial Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, authored by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson.

For instance, Thomas Jefferson held persons who were legally white ( less than 25 % Black ) according to Virginia law at the time, but, because they were born to slave mothers, they were born into slavery, according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which Virginia adopted into law in 1662.

A third study allegedly lasted for 130 days in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Dr. Andrew Newberg and Dr. George C. Brainard.

Thomas Jefferson, who strongly advocated the ability of the public to share and build upon the works of others, proposed as part of the Bill of Rights that a short timespan be protected:

The unofficial leader of the team, Thomas Jefferson, had been the appointed Financial Secretary until March 1992, when he resigned over public spending disputes to fight the election.

In 1805 President Thomas Jefferson considered possessing Cuba for strategic reasons, sending secret agents to the island to negotiate with Governor Someruelos.

Thomas Jefferson called these inalienable rights: "... rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.

With peace restored, Latrobe designed an American order that substituted for the acanthus tobacco leaves, of which he sent a sketch to Thomas Jefferson in a letter, November 5, 1816.

Historians widely believe that the widower Thomas Jefferson, both before and during his presidency of the United States in the early 19th century, had an intimate relationship of 38 years with his mixed-race slave Sally Hemings, in such an arrangement, and fathered all of her six children of record.

In 1787, James Madison wrote Thomas Jefferson in France for background information on constitutional government to use at the Constitutional Convention.

The English word catenary is usually attributed to Thomas Jefferson,

* James Stewart as Thomas Jefferson " Tom " Destry, Jr., the new deputy

It carried the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.

( However, John Dickinson's and Thomas McKean's service as chief executives of Delaware and then of Pennsylvania, beginning in the period immediately following the Declaration of Independence, arguably predate Houston on both counts.

Stephen Thomas Erlwine of allmusic called it Lennon's " beloved obscurity " that wound up as " arguably the worst thing the group ever recorded.

The second period music, for which Gurdjieff arguably became best known, written in collaboration with Russian composer Thomas de Hartmann, is described as the Gurdjieff-de Hartmann music.

Critical reaction was extremely positive ; Pitchfork awarded the album a 9. 7 out of 10, and Allmusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that it was " arguably Yo La Tengo's finest and most coherent album to date.

* Platonism, the concept of a philosopher king in Plato's The Republic, a form of enlightened absolutism or the " benevolent despot ", similar to Statism and the concepts advocated by Thomas Hobbes and ( arguably ) Niccolò Machiavelli.

Emerson, arguably one of the founders of transcendentalism, had visited England as a young man to meet these two English poets, as well as Thomas Carlyle.

Thomas James " Tom " Clarke (; 11 March 1857 – 3 May 1916 ) was an Irish revolutionary leader and arguably the person most responsible for the 1916 Easter Rising.

As part of this doctoral work, Palackal brought out a CD, Qambel Maran, a collection of Syriac chants in the Chaldean tradition of the Syro-Malabar Church ; it includes the hymn Awun d ’ wasmayya, i. e., the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, arguably in the same words which were used by Jesus when he taught the Pater Noster, compositions by St. Ephrem the Syrian ( notably the acrostic hymn Iso maaran m ’ siha on the name Iso M ' siha, i. e., Jesus the Messiah ), and the Syriac translation Sabbah lesan of the Latin hymn Pange Lingua by St. Thomas Aquinas ; these chants had up to then been preserved in the main only in oral tradition ; among the singers is Fr.

Saint Thomas Lowland parish can arguably be viewed as the heart of the Nevis economy.

The second, and arguably largest, obstacle for Ramos to challenge Hagler for the World Middleweight Championship came when he lost his USBA Middleweight title, on November 24, by a knockout in round nine against James Kinchen ( who years later lost to Thomas Hearns over twelve rounds in a WBO world title bout ) in Stateline.

Adam Coopersmith, an Obstetrician and Immunologist, helps in saving the life of Thomas Hartnell, known as the " Boss " in Washington, who is one of the advisors to the President of the United States, and arguably, a man holding more personal power than the President himself.

Notable individuals whose ideas have contributed to classical liberalism include John Locke, Jean-Baptiste Say, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo.

Philosophers associated with empiricism include Aristotle, Alhazen, Avicenna, Ibn Tufail, Robert Grosseteste, William of Ockham, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Boyle, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Leopold von Ranke, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Popper.

Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, wrote: " Bacon, Locke and Newton.

In London, Locke resumed his medical studies under the tutelage of Thomas Sydenham.

While it was once thought that Locke wrote the Treatises to defend the Glorious Revolution of 1688, recent scholarship has shown that the work was composed well before this date, and it is now viewed as a more general argument against absolute monarchy ( particularly as espoused by Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes ) and for individual consent as the basis of political legitimacy.

Adler soon returned to school to take writing classes at night where he discovered the works of men he would come to call heroes: Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, John Stuart Mill and others.

Natural law theories have, however, exercised a profound influence on the development of English common law, and have featured greatly in the philosophies of Thomas Aquinas, Francisco Suárez, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, and Emmerich de Vattel.

Secularism draws its intellectual roots from Greek and Roman philosophers such as Marcus Aurelius and Epicurus ; medieval Muslim polymaths such as Ibn Rushd ; Enlightenment thinkers such as Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine ; and more recent freethinkers, agnostics, and atheists such as Robert Ingersoll and Bertrand Russell.

Based primarily on the writings of John Locke and Thomas Jefferson, the declaration proclaimed that the Mexican government " ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived " and complained about " arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny ".

Notable Unitarians include Béla Bartók the 20th century composer, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker in theology and ministry, Charles Darwin, Joseph Priestley and Linus Pauling in science, George Boole in mathematics, Susan B. Anthony, John Locke in civil government, and Florence Nightingale in humanitarianism and social justice, Charles Dickens, John Bowring and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in literature, Frank Lloyd Wright in arts, Josiah Wedgwood in industry, Thomas Starr King in ministry and politics, and Charles William Eliot in education.

* Rowe, Mary & Bendersky, Corinne, " Workplace Justice, Zero Tolerance and Zero Barriers: Getting People to Come Forward in Conflict Management Systems ," in Negotiations and Change, From the Workplace to Society, Thomas Kochan and Richard Locke ( eds ), Cornell University Press, 2002

Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes ( 1651 ), Samuel Pufendorf ( 1673 ), John Locke ( 1689 ), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1762 ) are among the most prominent of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century theorists of social contract and natural rights.

The earliest major philosophers to publish in English, such as Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke also routinely wrote in Latin and French, and compared their terms to Greek, treating the words " logos ", " ratio ", " raison " and " reason " as inter-changeable.

The use of the state of nature to imagine the origins of government, as by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, may also be considered a thought experiment.

The Institute is named after Cato's Letters, a series of British essays penned in the early 18th century by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon expounding the political views of philosopher John Locke, that had a strong influence on the American Revolution's intellectual environment.

In Rawls's theory, Justice as Fairness, the original position plays the role that the state of nature does in the classical social contract tradition of Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Locke.

It became " one of the most important books that heralded the Scientific Revolution " and European Enlightenment, and the thoughts expressed in the novel can be found in " different variations and to different degrees in the books of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Isaac Newton, and Immanuel Kant.

This observational method Cousin regards as that of the 18th century, the method which Descartes began and abandoned, and which Locke and Condillac applied, though imperfectly, and which Thomas Reid and Kant used with more success.

* Joseph Butler ( 1692 – 1752 ) English bishop, theologian, apologist and philosopher who offered critiques of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and influenced figures such as David Hume, Thomas Reid, and Adam Smith

In Natural Right and History Strauss begins with a critique of Max Weber's epistemology, briefly engages the relativism of Martin Heidegger ( who goes unnamed ), and continues with a discussion of the evolution of natural rights via an analysis of the thought of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.

Thomas Hobbes, under the influence of Francis Bacon, re-oriented political thought to what was most solid but also most low in man — his physical hopes and fears — setting a precedent for John Locke and the later economic approach to political thought, as in David Hume and Adam Smith.