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The Founding Fathers, including Jefferson, were extremely liberal for the time period they lived in. The idea of a government by the people for the people, even if at the time they only considered white men the people, was very revolutionary in the late 1700' early 1800's. The Bill of Rights, which Thomas Jefferson demanded be included in the Constitution is a very liberal concept, even by today's standards. Part of the problem here is that many Conservatives and Liberals today do not understand what those titles actually mean or represent. Liberals and Conservatives have latched on to particular parts of the constitution which they approve of and conveinently ignore the parts they don't like. Neither the far right or far left really support the concept of individual liberty anymore, which was the basis of our Constitution. By definition the U.S. is meant to be a liberal democracry, meaning a representational government chosen by the people for the purpose of safeguarding the individual liberty of the citizens of the United States. Neither the so called Conservatives or so called Liberals truly support this concept. They just have different opinions about which liberties they want to eliminate.
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