Jefferson Definition

Jefferson Sentence Examples

• You are right to quote Jefferson, but you chose the wrong quote.

• Didn't Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, believe the Constitution should be rewritten every twenty years so that no one was governed by a document they had no say in creating?

• Commercial warfare failed, the Embargo was repealed, and Jefferson, having entangled foreign relations and brought the country to the verge of civil war, retired to private life, leaving to his successor Madison, and to Gallatin, the task of extricating the nation from its difficulties.

• He stood, with Jefferson and Madison, at the head of his party, and won his place by force of character, courage, application and intellectual power.

• The legislature first met here in 1826; Jefferson City became the county-seat in 1828, and in 1839 was first chartered as a city.