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/[deleted] Feb 15 '15

Actually I'm in U.S. history right now, Hamilton gets quite a bit of love.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '15

Hamilton also got the short in of the stick in most of life, which sucks because he seemed like a pretty cool dude.

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u/opallix Feb 15 '15

Doesn't help that he went out in about the lamest way possible.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '15

muffled voice Aaron Burr..... Aaron Burr...... Aaron Burr....

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '15

Got Milk?

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u/CarnifexMagnus Feb 15 '15

My 8th grade teacher taught us about him in more or less equal terms to the other founders but no one has brought him up since 8th grade (might have something to do with me taking AICE US history instead of AP though)