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Recently, Virginia Senator George Allen was quoted
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/03/AR2005120301347_pf.html)
as saying that his supports should "stand behind 'common-sense Jeffersonian
conservative principles' that have helped propel the GOP in national and
state elections."  Current politics aside (if that is possible) I was
wondering what Viriginia historians would make of the views of TJ that might
be called conservative today, and which might not be....

John R. Maass
Dept. of History
The Ohio State University
230 West 17th Ave
106 Dulles Hall
Columbus, OH  43210-1367
Ph. 614/760-9625
http://history.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=1490

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 Thomas Jefferson

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