Jefferson's Revolution Article V as a Bloodless Alternative to Violent Revolution

Описание: In the summer of 17 87 while delegates in Philadelphia debated the Constitution Jefferson was serving as ambassador to France but his revolutionary ideas loomed large in Philadelphia Elections in the new government would change personnel and even policy but not the form of government To truly honor the right of revolution a mechanism that could alter the fundamental structure of government was needed to provide civil revolution without bloodshed Article V was designed as that mechanism a constitutional alternative to Jefferson's bloody tree of liberty