Joseph J. Ellis feels that the most important aspect of Thomas Jefferson was his mind and how he could put his ideas together to form a powerful document, whether the ideas be original or not. I, on the other hand, feel that Jefferson was not as smart as everyone thinks he may have been, but he was probably still the best choice to prepare a document as powerful as the Declaration of Independence turned out …showed first 75 words of 746 total…

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