1. Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson was a believer that slavery could be abolished if Congress had sufficient power of the states to declare all men free. Yet he was an advocate of states' rights and he opposed the kind of centralized power that would be required to end slavery by legal action. ... Jefferson felt that if the president were elected without limits on his term he would become an "officer for life" (pg 430), and would eventually become corrupt or in a sense become an "American King." ... Jefferson believed that if the cities became too large as they were in Europe that this would be the time that th...
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