Thomas jefferson cares for governor
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1. Introduction
1Thomas Jefferson’s well-established fame as an advocate of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, equal rights of men, religious freedom, and democracy has frequently been questioned. For many scholars his racist statements, his little concern for women’s rights, his apparently unrealistic anti-slavery policies, and his anti-Federalist politics suffice as proofs of the very opposite of the man. The purpose of this article is to show how the concept of politics figures at the center of Jefferson’s entire worldview. In addition to his understanding of politics itself, the concept also characterizes his social, scientific, and religious thought, as well as his lifelong dilemma as a slaveholder preaching the abolition of slavery.1
2What kind of politics did Jefferson embrace? Research literature teems with somewhat confusing claims about Jefferson’s “development” as a political thinker. Leonard Levy famously claimed that, in practice, Jefferson betrayed all of his fundamentally libertarian convictions, while there is scant evidence that Jefferson can be described as a libertarian to begin with. Other scholars hold that he gradually turned from his revolutionary thinking toward either liberal or simply classical republican political thought.2
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WEDNESDAY, June 2, 1779.
An engrossed bill, “for paying the wages of the members of this present session of Assembly,” was read the third time.
Resolved, That the bill do pass, and that the title be, “an act for paying the wages of the members of this present session of Assembly.”
Ordered, That Mr. Richard Lee do carry the bill to the Senate, and desire their concurrence.
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Resolved, That the discussion of the claim of the Indiana Company, which was appointed to be heard on this day, be put off till Monday next.
Mr. Charles Carter presented, according to order, a bill “to increase the salaries of the clerks to the auditors of public accounts;” and the same was received and read the first time, and ordered to be read a second time.
Mr. Harvie, from the committee appointed, in conjunction with a committee of the Senate, to notify to Thomas Jefferson, Esq. his appointment to be Governor of this Commonwealth, reported, that the committee had, according to order, waited on that gentleman, and notified his appointment, and that he was pleased to return the following answer:
Gentlemen,―The honor which the General Assembly have been pleased to confer on me, by calling me to the high office of Governor of this C