HELP.. thomas jefferson's weaknesses?

Question

I NEED DIRT ON THOMAS JEFFERSON FOR A WORLD HISTORY DEBATE WEDNESDAY. I HAVE TO ARGUE ON WHOS THE BEST LEADER..I AM AGAINST THOMAS JEFFERSON WHICH APPEARS TO HAVE NO FLAWS..

I NEED MAJOR HELP SINCE I AM ADOLF HITLER

Answer 1

telling us that you're hitler is supposed to inspire us to help you? ;)

Jefferson made a series of promises when he ran for office, and he ended up selling out when he became president in order to survive.

For example, he wasn't really in favor of expanding the country, but he got stuck with the Louisiana Purchase. He also wasn't particularly fond of executive action, and he ended up having to take lots of strong actions as President, like the Louisiana Purchase.

Answer 2

Thomas Jefferson Weaknesses

Answer 3

Policies that didn't work:

Nullification. Jefferson's Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions helped tear his own country apart and led to the Civil War.

Strict Construction of the Constitution. With Jefferson's interpretation of the Constitution, our country would have never survived technolgical advances. We would have had to add hundreds of amendments in order for the Federal Government to control things as simple as the airline industry (which keeps our economy and country together).

Agrarian Society. As great as it sounds, a country of farmers could never work. Technology and industry have driven our economy to great heights. Hitler knew that, he industrialized and helped Germany out of the Great Depression.

Policies against the National Bank. Jefferson wanted to crush the National Bank. Doing so would have never let our contry develop economically. He also didn't want the US to assume the debts of the Confederation Government, which would have made us look like the kid down the street that won't pay you back that $5. Using Jefferson's philosophy against the National Bank, and against the Federal Government borrowing money to run on (bonds, etc), later Presidents (Jackson) paid off the national debt and it drove us into one of the worst depressions in history. When the government doesn't borrow money to run on, then they have no money to spend and to "prime the pump" of the economy. Hitler knew his country needed a national debt (but his way to solve it was to steal millions of pounds of gold).

Dirt:

Jefferson had a couple of kids with Sally Hemmings, one of his slaves. Although it can't be proven 100%, decendants of Sally Hemmings have had DNA tests that prove they are alos decendants of a male Jefferson (it could have been his nephew, I guess).

Another comparison between the two: (It might be a stretch to make this because the times and countries were SO different.) Jefferson didn't trust the masses. He thought democracy was simply "mob rule". Hitler on the other hand can be seen as pandering to the masses. He actually proved Jefferson's point of mob rule. Hitler had the support of those masses (by blaming their economic trouble on the Jews). Anyway, this flies in the face of what we think today. A President saying that democracy is bad? He'd be run out of the country! We see a leader as wanting the support of the masses, and if they have that support, then they are a good leader. Just think of how vilianized GWBush is, because his approval rating is low (therefore, we believe he must not be a good leader or a good person). Yet when Hitler had high "approval ratings", we can still see him as an evil person.

Answer 4

I really cant think of a bad thing that Thomas Jefferson ever did, but I can help you with Hitler. Hitler may have been an insane maniac, but he built up an army and helped Germany out of its hyperinflation. He is like Franklin Roosevelt in the fact that he brought Germany to its feet during a time of great economical crisis.

Answer 5

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Alexander Hamilton was an ultraconservative Federalist with a belief in strong central government authority, usually at the expense of the states. His fiscal policies as Washington's Secretary of the Treasury (especially assumption of state debts incurred during the Revolution) led to a stronger central authority as the states rallied around the concept of paying less. Essentially, the strength of his belief was his belief in strength, his weakness his unwillingness to compromise and cede any power to the states, already reticent at being somewhat coerced into signing the Constitution (especially the small states). Thomas Jefferson was personally a fervent states' righter but upon taking the presidency, he essentially commandeered and continued Hamilton's Federalist policies. He was unable to reconcile his personal beliefs with the realities of politics, and his view of an ideal government as a limited one was at the time not one fated to work. His strength (theoretically) was the versatility and popular assent behind his government. His weakness was the lack of centralized authority his government possessed.

Answer 6

Sally Hemings--his slave.
Even if it was 'consensual,' you have an arguement much like that of over eighteen + younger than 18 = illegal -- because Jefferson wielded so much power over Sally (she was his slave), it couldn't have been consensual, he could have made her life miserable, or ended it, had she refused.

Answer 7

kryptonite!

or ... wouldnt he have presided over some pretty serious injustice against native american populations, or was that mostly over by then?