A Common Shared Vision.... Does the Vision Live Yet Today?
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism George Washington, often called the Father of our country, and Thomas Jefferson, author of The Declaration of Independence, were fiercely patriotic men that shared the vision of an independent and free democratic republic. They were respectively the first and third Presidents of the United States of America. While sharing the same vision for America they had differing and conflicting views on how to achieve the same vision. Washington became a staunch advocate for a strong central government, having suffered through eight years of the Revolutionary War as Commander in Chief observing, and living the ineptitude of a weak decentralized Continental Congress. Jefferson on the other hand was an unshakable advocate for a limited federal government with more powers being reserved to the states. From the earliest beginnings of the great American Experiment ...