Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (13 Aprile 1743 – 4 Julie 1826) wis ane o the foondin faithers o the Unitit States o Americae. He wrate the Unitit States Declaration o Unthirldom an wis efter the third Preses o the Unitit States. He wis a snar constructionist, meanin he believed the federal govrenment alane haed pouers leemitit tae juist whit wis written in the Constitution, an naething mair. E'en sae, he brak his ain staundart bi sendin navy ships tae Algiers an bi buyin the Louisiana Territory frae Fraunce, baith o whit wisna pouers grantit in the Constitution. He wis verra sib wi the Anti-Federalists, a group that thocht the Constitution gien ower muckle pouer tae the naitional govrenment, awtho durin the ratification collieshangie, he threapit tae be on naither side.

Maist historians nou believe that, efter the daith o his wife in 1782, he haed a relationship wi his slave Sally Hemings an faithered at least six o her bairns.

 References 

Category:1743 births
Category:1826 daiths
Category:18t-century American politeecians
Category:18t-century American writers
Category:19t-century American politeecians
Category:Ambassadors o the Unitit States tae Fraunce
Category:American airchitects
Category:American beuk an manuscript collectors
Category:American deists
Category:American foreign policy writers
Category:American gairdeners
Category:American inventors
Category:American male writers
Category:American Neoclessical airchitects
Category:American fowk o Inglis strynd
Category:American fowk o Welsh strynd
Category:American planters
Category:American political philosophers
Category:American poleetical writers
Category:American sclave awners
Category:American surveyors
Category:American Unitarians
Category:Buirials at Monticello
Category:College of William & Mary alumni
Category:Continental Congressmen frae Virginie
Category:Democratic-Republican Pairty Preses o the Unitit States
Category:Democratic-Republican Pairty Vice Preses o the Unitit States
Category:Enlichtenment philosophers
Category:Fellaes o the American Academy o Airts an Sciences
Category:Independent scientists
Category:Govrenors o Virginie
Category:Hall of Fame for Great Americans inductees
Category:History o the Unitit States (1789–1849)
Category:Hoose o Burgesses members
Thomas
Category:Members o the American Antiquarian Society
Category:Members o the American Filosofical Society
Category:Members o the Ryal Netherlands Academy o Airts an Sciences
Category:Members o the Virginie Hoose o Delegates
Category:Fowk frae Albemarle Coonty, Virginie
Category:Fowk o the American Enlightenment
Category:Fowk o Virginie in the American Revolution
Category:Pheesiocrats
Category:Pre-19t-century cryptografers
Category:Preses o the Unitit States
Category:Randolph faimily o Virginie
Category:Releegious sceptics
Category:Signers o the Unitit States Declaration o Unthirldom

Category:Unitit States presidential candidates, 1792
Category:Unitit States presidential candidates, 1796
Category:Unitit States presidential candidates, 1800
Category:Unitit States presidential candidates, 1804
Category:Unitit States Secretaries o State
Category:Varsity an college foonders
Category:Varsity o Virginie fowk
Category:Vice Preses o the Unitit States
Category:Virginie Democratic-Republicans
Category:Virginie lawers
Category:Washington admeenistration cabinet members
Category:Writers frae Virginie
Category:Writers o American Soothren leeteratur