Jefferson believed that if the common man were supplied with the correct reliable information then the common man would make the responsible choice. The common man there for had to be educated, from literacy came knowledge and complex decision making and with these became the means of safeguarding self-government and independence. Democracy would be safe in the hands of the common man. The state therefor reasonability is to the common man and to help and assist the common man, from the defense of the nation to the health and welfare of the people.
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The Declaration of Independence .
That to secure these Rights (Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness), Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form . .
This passage of The Declaration of Independence relays that the Americans believe the people of the nation institute democracies. These people have the right to alter, change, get rid of, and get a new form of government as they are now throwing off the government of Great Britain. .
The Preamble to the Constitution.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. .
Preamble illustrates that all the people establish that the United States basic job is to protect and defend the liberty or freedom of the people of the United States. .
The Constitution.
Article 1 section 5.
Sets up the way congress are elected. By a majority of people who live in there congresses area.
