Tag Archives: Thomas Jefferson

Newsweek reports: Former President Donald Trump falsely called Thomas Jefferson a “principal writer” of the Constitution in a statement slamming New York City officials for voting to remove his statue from New York City Hall. In the statement, posted to Twitter Tuesday evening by spokesperson Liz Harrington, Trump wrote, “The late, great Thomas Jefferson, one of our most important Founding …

From KKK-affiliated hate group leader Tony Perkins: Dear Joe, The very future of America is at stake. What kind of country will we give to your children and grandchildren? Will we adhere to what Thomas Jefferson so eloquently called “the laws of nature and of nature’s God” in the Declaration of Independence? Or will we twist and distort that which …

I was cruising around Strange Maps and found this February post about Thomas Jefferson’s rejected plan on dividing the Northwest Territory into ten states. Jefferson’s names were rejected as “too silly.” Some factoids about the never-were states: • Sylvania would have covered much of present-day Minnesota, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and some of northern Wisconsin.• Michigania would have incorporated most of …