How Thomas Jefferson Changed From The 1700s

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Thomas Jefferson was a smart man. He was the author of the Declaration of Independence and also had input into the writing of the Constitution. He once said, "The Constitution belongs to the living and not to the dead." Jefferson said this because the world is ever changing. There are always improvements made everything and more people are born thus more opinions are formed. Thomas Jefferson was right about this. If the Founding Fathers said that America had to abide by the same rules and could not make any changes the to any part of the Constitution, America would still be living with many of the same problems that it had in the 1700s. Quite a bit has changed from the 1700s. A few things that the Founding Fathers put into the Constitution

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