Thomas Jefferson has expressed his views regarding the rights of individuals, political economy, and race.

Is there a way that all these ideas might be understood as a unified whole, a political ideology? Or are Jefferson's writings rife with contradictions?

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More on Jefferson's Political Ideology Now in Jefferson's mind, the Presidential election of 1800 was a real revolution. He thought the election was so pivotal because he believed that the Federalists were trying to undermine the republic. In the map above, you can see different parts of the country support different candidates. It was a close election. Most of Jefferson's political support came from the South and west. That might not be too surprising given Jefferson's agrarian vision. And so where did he nd support but in the regions of the country that remained committed to an agrarian economy for the foreseeable future. The South was tied to cotton and agriculture. He also got support from the west, because it remains a rural agrarian society. The sections of the country that were most opposed to Jefferson were in the Northeast. That's the section of the country developing a more diversied economy. By looking at the map above, you can see that the diversied economic region is the more isolated of the three. The South and the west at this particular moment have a lot in common with each other and it's the Northeast that is struggling to nd allies. The Three-Fifths Clause Interestingly enough, Jefferson would not have won the election of 1800 if it had not been for the three-fths clause. The Three-Fifths Clause is a clause within the Constitution that counted slaves as three-fths of an individual for purposes of determining House membership, which also determines your membership in the electoral college. Because of that three-fths clause, the voting power of Southern whites was inated and Jefferson was able to get to the electoral majority that he needed to win the White House. If it hadn't been for the three-fths clause, Adams would have been a two-term president. It's something that a lot of Northern whites were going to remember with bitterness. Indeed, Virginians would dominate the White House from 1801 through 1825. The three-fths clause made that dominance possible. Jefferson's Presidency: Getting Things Accomplished So Jefferson won, and he is often regarded as one of the more effective presidents in US history because he got the things that he wanted to be accomplished. He was able to get a lot of the things that he wanted done, whether they were a good idea that's another matter entirely. And because of that, he tends to rank well in Time magazine articles. One of the things that Jefferson wanted to do was dramatically reduce military spending. He was anxious about the increases in military spending under the Adams administration and saw the standing army as a symbolic threat to the republican world he wanted to protect. He was able to do this successfully and dramatically gut the army and navy. In his rst term in ofce, he reduced the army to basically a skeleton force of just over 3 thousand ofcers and soldiers. He transformed the Navy from an organization that was starting to develop a eet of ships capable of ghting in the open ocean, to what was essentially a Coast Guard eet patrolling harbors to make sure smuggling is not taking place. Jefferson also benets from the fact that American business was really booming. When Europe was at war with itself, farmers become soldiers, soldiers needed to eat, and Americans are happy to supply them with the food as long as they're able to pay. Even with the impressment of American sailors and the conscation of American ships, American merchants made lots of money. So committed was Jefferson to the idea of an agrarian society. that he decided to purchase more land, namely the Louisiana Purchase. Let's talk about how this would reshape America and Jefferson's presidency up next. season, ~ is Jefferson on the cover of Time Magazine in 2004