Thomas Jefferson:
Architect of Independence
When we study the American Revolution, we are always quick to point out the terms FREEDOM and INDEPENDENCE as they apply to the revolutionary spirit of the 1770's which actually formed this nation.
There is a side of Thomas Jefferson that is never acknowledged by those entrusted with his memory; his political side. The side of him which was that part of him which we call his founding father side; that sheer spirit of political rebellion that separated us forever from the British mercantile English system of colonial government.
Yet, eighty-four years later, during the Civil War, this concept of colonial rebellion in North America was now labelled historically as an act of treason in the eyes of the general government, in the North's desperate bid to end the concept of states' rights; the very thing which had made colonial independence even possible.
This general, or federal government had thus now become under that northern federalist and very much New England influence; the North American form of that very English monarchy, once removed.
One man saw this coming, understood its implications all too well, and wrote nearly 20,000 letters in his daily attempts to explain this to some key people who mattered, and who might help to keep this from happening to our brand new nation.
In the end, he ends up writing to us all, as we now have most all of his personal letters for our own. Yet, even now, those of us who know the truth about our country, and about our third president, are quick to shy away from his core beliefs in the firm and very Strict Constitutional views of those great founders who penned that very document. And it is for this reason that this film was made.
Thomas Jefferson: Architect of Independence is a film based upon the writings and beliefs of Thomas Jefferson that are not widely known, nor publicized. He was in fact an ardent lover of states' rights, an avowed confederate of his beloved country of Virginia, and a believer in severing ourselves free from that union we hold so dear, especially when those in New England were agitating for an empire, as they have done today.
He did actually coin the word Nullification in the Principles of '98, in his own eighth Kentucky Resolve; a paper in which the original was thus summoned by Vice President John C. Calhoun, and thus read to James Madison in 1832, to remind the aged and ever increasingly confused James Madison of his own great and learned mentor's true beliefs.
This movie will seek to reveal that side of Thomas Jefferson; as a true founding father, in the original sense, and before the poor and hated sophistries of John Marshall and, when history can stoop to notice him, the wretched spin-doctorings of Alexander Hamilton. For, without Jefferson, our original rebellion from England can not be remembered, and our hopeful escape from our present day political agonies can never be realized.
