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International Journal of Literacy and Education

2022, Vol. 2, Issue 1, Part B

Thomas Jefferson and his intellectual and political role 1769-1800


Author(s): Osamah Ibrahim Raheem

Abstract: Given Thomas Jefferson's scientific and political personality, influential in the modern history of the United States, he touched on the intellectual aspect as he was a thinker and a scientist. We cannot say that George Washington was a scientist because he was a military man in the field, while Thomas Jefferson was a man with political opinions and intellectual and legal proposals.Thomas Jefferson is one of the favorites of American history, the builder of American politics and one of the founders of its great edifice. At the opening of the University of Virginia because of his belief that the generation of the simple class is the sober generation that preserves the achievements of the American Revolution, so he was keen on educating them and allocating a portion of the land for them in order to build schools for them. Thomas Jefferson's interventions were containment, far from emotions, but rather scientific and objective, and this is what we seek in his intervention within the economic aspects.

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Osamah Ibrahim Raheem. Thomas Jefferson and his intellectual and political role 1769-1800. Int J Literacy Educ 2022;2(1):150-157.
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