Introduction
Thomas Jefferson was born in 1743 in Albemarle County in Virginia United States Of America. He later became the third United States president. He was first a powerful advocate. Thomas is said to have inherited a planter, a surveyor, and some 5,000 acres of land from his father, He had a high social standing in his community. In college, he studied law and married Martha Wayles Skelton, a widow, and took her to live in his partly constructed mountaintop home, Monticello.
He was freckled, sandy-haired, tall and awkward, Jefferson was eloquent as a correspondent, but he was no public speaker. He donated his pen rather than his voice to the patriot cause In the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Continental Congress. As the silent member of the Congress he drafted the Declaration of Independence and in the years following, he labored to make its words a reality in Virginia. Some of his policies are as follows:
Mode of governance
When Jefferson assumed leadership of the Republicans he opposed a strong centralized Government and championed the rights of states. He developed a theory about self governance and the rights of people who established habitat in new lands. This he did and put down these thoughts in an article that summarized the British America and Rights View, a time he was to attend the Congress in Philadelphia. Thomas said America was the most important and shall separate herself from the systems of Europe.
He observed that the circumstances, the pursuits, and the interests of Americans which were distinct and also the principles of their policy. He stressed that entanglements with the quarter of the globe should be avoided for peace and justices are the polar stars of the American societies and that if any person want to be a slave, navigators or agriculturists swallowed into one government or divided into a thousand, they should do so at will because America has nothing to fear in any form. His policy was to avoid entangling himself and his government in the system of European interests. He took no sides between its rival powers nor attached himself to none of its ever-changing confederacies. He believed this would divert the energies from creation to destruction.
Government separate from Europe
His next policy was first to avoid European Wars because he believed that the fundamental principle of his government is never to entangle with the broils of Europe. The second was never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. In both North America and South America, there are a set of interests distinct from those of Europe and are peculiarly her own. While the last he said is laboring to become the domicile of despotism. To this, his endeavor was surely to make the hemisphere of freedom (Lowry 1955).
To avoid taking part in the war raging in Europe exhortations were a confirmation of this policy which he had pursued, and which he thought should be the governing canon of the republic. Jefferson’s hope was still to keep clear of [the broils of Europe], and that time may be given to them to find some means of shielding America in future from foreign influence, political, commercial, or in whatever other form it may be attempted.
Putting America above Foreign Ties
His other policy was that, American Union above foreign ties is to do what is right, leaving the people of Europe to act their follies and crimes among themselves; they pursue in good faith the paths of peace and prosperity. He said that the European politics render it crucially necessary that, with respect to everything outside, they are one nation only that was resolutely brought up jointly as one community. Since the first object of an American heart is their country. In that they embarked in family, fortune and own existence. Jefferson asserted that he was not the one farthing for the interest, or a single motive of preference of any one nation to another but in proportion as they are more or less friendly to the Americans (Leonard & White1951).
He appreciated the happiness in believing that whatever follies they may be led into as to foreign nations, they shall never give up in their Union, the last anchor of their hope, and that alone which is to prevent America as heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators. This he finished by saying that their attachment to no nation on earth should supplant their attachment to liberty, much as he abhor war, and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind, and anxiously as he wished to keep out of the broils of Europe, he would yet go with his brethren into these, rather than separate from them.
Justice to All Nations
Jefferson also advocated for peace and justice for all Nations. He wished to cultivate peace and friendship with all nations, believing that course most conducive to the welfare of his own. It is expected that these friendships should bear some fraction to the ordinary interests of the parties to cultivate with all nations a spirit of justice and friendly accommodation because there is no price we asked for in friendship. Justice and the comity therefore should be observed between nation and nation because it is in the supremacy of foreign nations to put in to joint happiness and affluence by faithfully using their good offices wherever they can procure the peace and advantage of each other.
Thomas Jefferson had never cherished the same spirit with all nations, from a consciousness that peace, prosperity, liberty and morals have an intimate connection he wished not to meddle with the internal affairs of any country, or with the general affairs of Europe. Harmony with all states, and the rights which that gives his country with respect to all nations was his objective (Leonard & White1951). He fought for the idea that all nations may recover and retain their independence and that those who are overgrown may not advance beyond the safe measures of power and that a salutary balance may be ever maintained among nations since and peace, commerce and friendship may be sought and cultivated by all (Lowry 1955).
Conclusion
Thomas Jefferson having studied law was able to push forward his policies even if it meant breaking away with high powered individuals. He always had to stick to the truth and the policies he had. Jefferson’s actual subject was subjected to the effect of the changes, change that occurred in the French system of Government on the existing Treaties between the United States and France.He advocated for peace between nations of different of parts of the world since he maintained and advocated for the human rights. He also insisted that Americans should put the interest of their nation first before embarking on activities that will destroy America and advocated for a mode of government that is independent that is why he separated America from Europe.
References
Lowry, D. Monticello. The Home of Thomas Jefferson: London.Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation 1955.
Leonard D,White. The Jeffersonians: An Administrative study if the past, 1801-1829. New York: Macmillan Company, 1951.