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Jefferson was certainly of the mind that documents like the Constitution needed to be overhauled about once or twice a generation.

People like to talk about "the founding fathers" as if they were of a singular mind about things. But they were very much not. They were so much not that the Vice President of the United States literally shot the former Secretary of Treasury over various disagreements.

So, you know, they weren't exactly 100% with each other.



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