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"Just to keep the government honest" -Thomas Jefferson

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Q: Why should there be a revolution in government every 20 years?
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Why did Thomas Jefferson ask in so many words Their should be a revolution in government every twenty years?

because he was a man with a large vocabulary range.


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He didn't believe that at all. He believed that a small rural society was best and that every few years there should be a revolution. When he was alive the country was 90% farms and he was a plantation owner, so for him a large federal government would intrude on rights.


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Did Thomas Jefferson believe in an agrarian commonwealth?

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