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Official Presidential Portrait of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale
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Publish: Dec.1.14
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Thomas Jefferson Impact base on the deveplement of the US government.
Thomas Jefferson had contribute to U.S. government by his performance as president divergent conception of executive power. He also is known for his hostility to strong central government and the judicial overreach of the supreme court under John Marshall that had a major impact even on the executive power. He wanted the people to understand the power of which they had which on bring forward a universal principle of self government. Thomas Jefferson set fourth a bill of particular grievance against the reigning sovereign and compressed a whole cosmology, a political philosophy and a national creed when he wrote the declaration of independent .Thomas Jefferson influence o today whether in the classroom or reality was to increase the power of the presidency and to let all men know that they are created equally.
The Louisiana Purchase (1803)
In 1803 as President of the United States, Jefferson purchased more than 800,000 square miles of Louisiana Territory from France for about $15 million, effectively doubling the size of the United States.
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
Thomas Jefferson was appointed by Congress to a five-person committee in charge of writing The Declaration of Independence. The other four members were John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. Jefferson was responsible for writing the first draft—within 17 days, the draft document was written, reviewed and revised by the committee, and presented to Congress.
The first U.S. Secretary of State (1790–1793)
Jefferson served as the country’s first Secretary of State under President George Washington. In this office, he advocated for each state to pay its own portion of the Revolutionary War debt and supported France in its war with Britain, though he believed the United States should maintain neutrality in the conflict.