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...JEFFERSON AND CIVIL LIBERTIES, by Leonard Levey. The thesis of this well-documented polemic is that Jefferson was not the civil libertarian he has been made out to be. He was not above suspending freedoms when it suited his purpose, and to enforce his unpopular embargo, he, in effect, made war on Americans...
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Levy cites evidence to argue that Jefferson was just as careless of civil liberties as a peacetime President. Angered by vicious journalistic attacks on him, he advocated "wholeseome prosecutions to restore the integrity of the presses." With Jefferson's tacit approval, a federal judge whom he had appointed secured indictments against a group of publishers and clergymen for libeling the Government. Charges were dropped only after it became clear that one of the ministers had facts and figures to back up a gamy story that the President had once attempted to seduce a friend's wife...
When the erratic Aaron Burr started recruiting men in Louisiana for some mysterious purpose, most likely an invasion of Mexico, Jefferson panicked. He feared that Burr meant to seize New Orleans and detach the Western U.S. Though Burr had been cleared by a federal grand jury, Jefferson pronounced him guilty of treason and had him arrested. When Chief Justice John Mar shall refused to hold Burr on a treason charge for lack of evidence, Jefferson demanded a constitutional amendment making federal judges removable by the President...
...Against Americans. During the Napoleonic Wars, when both Britain and France were stopping U.S. ships and seizing their cargo, Jefferson clamped an embargo on all foreign trade. His aim was to keep the U.S. from being dragged into war, but he succeeded only in paralyzing the U.S. economy...