Ben Kerido / The Western Journal
About two and a half centuries ago in the city of Philadelphia, a man by the name of Thomas Jefferson became one of the defining voices of the early American nation as the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
And this immortal document was hardly Jefferson’s only contribution to the creation of the United States. He was also the first secretary of state, the third president and an early influencer of the U.S. Constitution and other major policies.
What is less known about Jefferson, however, is that he was actually unable to participate in the creation of the Constitution despite having been invited to do so. Why? Because in 1787 Jefferson was in Paris with a famed hero of the American Revolution, the French Gen. Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. There, Jefferson assisted Lafayette in the drafting of the document known as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
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