Purpose of government according to Jefferson?

Answer 1

in his inaugural speech, Jefferson said the purpose of government is 5 fold:

The government should...

1. Acknowledge and adore God,

2. Exercise frugality,

3. Restrain the infliction of injury (i.e. keep people safe, keep criminals away,)

4. Encourage entrepreneurship and free enterprise, and

5. Protect property, earnings of citizens.

Not quite.

Not God, but Providence. Jefferson was a Diest. He believed in the God of Nature; the Creator. Not Yahweh. Not Christ.

Not an endorsement of one God, but of religions that inculcate "honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man".

And he specifically said "labor". Not money earned any other way.

"Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation; entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter--with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens--a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities."

Answer 2

Governments are instituted to secured our rights among men... Declaration of Independence.

Answer 3

to protect the rights of the citizens, and if not carried. then said government should be abolished.

Answer 4

To secure and protect the unalienable rights of its citizen against violation.

Answer 5

Jefferson believed the purpose of government was to secure the rights of the people. Thomas Jefferson served as America's 3rd President.

Answer 6

To secure citizens' freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is the purpose of government according to Jefferson.

Answer 7

He says the Purpose of Government is to change the law that perstitutes are illegal

Answer 8

To protect individual liberty