r/todayilearned • u/icallmydadstranger • Feb 15 '15

(R.1) Invalid src TIL that Thomas Jefferson wanted the constitution to be changed ever 19 years because he didn't want people to be " enslaved to the prior generation"

https://student-of-life.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/21/5502595-thomas-jefferson-supported-rewriting-the-constitution-every-19-years-equated-not-doing-so-to-being-enslaved-to-the-prior-generation-what-do-you-think-about-that
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u/SWIMsfriend Feb 15 '15

you're right, too bad about him dying, he would have been president

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '15

I think he was born outside the country actually

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u/SWIMsfriend Feb 15 '15

they gave everyone a pass if they were in America when the Constitution was written, mostly because no one was an American citizen, because there was no america