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- W2506465645 abstract "Thomas Jefferson was a master of the succinct formulation. In his opening to the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence—“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal …”—he fashioned perhaps the most well-known phrase in all of American political language, one that has resonated powerfully to this day. This paean to human equality, however, was not his only view on the subject. As a slaveholder, he lived out one version of the paradox of extolling equality while continuing to benefit from an extreme form of human inequality. And even from a theoretical perspective, while he might assert that all people are created equal, he was also engaged near the end of his life in an extensive correspondence with his old friend and long-time political rival John Adams, where one of the subjects they took up was the notion, as Jefferson put it, of a “natural aristocracy.” Adams was rather skeptical about the notion, but Jefferson embraced it with relish: “The natural aristocracy,” he proclaimed, “I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society… May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?”1 All people may be equal, but in Jefferson’s view some were much more qualified because of their natural “virtue and talents” to assume positions of authority in a well-ordered republican society." @default.
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