the obvious rejoinder is that there is a lot about the character of modern american society — black people, living as free citizens — that the founders never intended. but i would like to say that we should not concede the point about the size and scope of government either.https://twitter.com/SenatorBraun/status/1424442682546458624 …
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Do you think Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin never intended black people living as free citizens?
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Jefferson absolutely did not which is why he was interested (as many members of American elite were before 1865) in colonization schemes to expel formerly enslaved and send them to Africa, Latin America or west.
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