Repairing Jefferson’s America A Guide to Civility and Enlightened Citizenship

Clay S Jenkinson, "Repairing Jefferson’s America: A Guide to Civility and Enlightened Citizenship"
English | ISBN: 164663098X | 2020 | 214 pages | EPUB | 1532 KB
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the greatest idealist of the Founding Fathers of America. He believed that average citizens are up to the challenge of governing themselves. He envisioned a republic of well-educated, well-informed, engaged, and vigilant citizens. Jefferson’s dream of a semi-utopian American republic has nearly been swallowed up by cynical partisanship, government gridlock, consumer materialism, and the corrosive power of money in American politics. Jefferson believed in civility, majority rule, the primacy of science and reason, and harmony in all of our public and private relations.