in his inaugural speech, Jefferson said the purpose of government is 5 fold:
The government should...
1. Acknowledge and adore God,
2. Exercise frugality,
3. Restrain the infliction of injury (i.e. keep people safe, keep criminals away,)
4. Encourage entrepreneurship and free enterprise, and
5. Protect property, earnings of citizens.
Not quite.
Not God, but Providence. Jefferson was a Diest. He believed in the God of Nature; the Creator. Not Yahweh. Not Christ.
Not an endorsement of one God, but of religions that inculcate "honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man".
And he specifically said "labor". Not money earned any other way.
"Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation; entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter--with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens--a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities."
Jefferson believed the purpose of government was to secure the rights of the people. Thomas Jefferson served as America's 3rd President.
According to Thomas Jefferson, if the government fails to fulfill it's full purpose, the people have the right/duty, to get rid of those in the government and choose others to fill the spots.
To secure citizens freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
According to Thomas Jefferson, if the government fails to fulfill it's full purpose, the people have the right/duty, to get rid of those in the government and choose others to fill the spots.
According to John Locke and Thomas Jefferson it is the government. That is the purpose of government to protect the interests of the common man or protect the "common good."
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According to john Locke, the purpose of government is to protect human rights and preserve public order
According to john Locke, the purpose of government is to protect human rights and preserve public order
According to the Monticello web site, Jefferson did not say it. It was said by John Sharp Williams in a speech he gave about Jefferson.
According to Locke: Man's purpose is to further God's purpose, and government's purpose is to enable man in his purpose. Please see the link.
According to Locke: Man's purpose is to further God's purpose, and government's purpose is to enable man in his purpose. Please see the link.
According to Thomas Jefferson, the rights that the government cannot take away are called "unalienable rights." These rights include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Jefferson believed that these rights are inherent to all individuals and should be protected by the government.
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