“No, no! Mike is far more alive than those yammerheads. The dead man is Thomas Jefferson—first of the rational anarchists, my boy, and one who once almost managed to slip over his non-system through the most beautiful rhetoric ever written. But they caught him at it, which I hope to avoid.
Thomas Jefferson was a rational anarchist. He believed the Republic would be no different than the Kingdom they sought to replace. His efforts to keep government weak were thwarted by Hamilton. The US constitution’s amendments were created in order of importance. The 2nd exists to preserve the 1st. Jefferson knew the government would have to be periodically and violently overthrown. Let’s keep it that way.
