Launching a Book

Upcoming book to be released soon on Amazon.

It's an exciting thing for an author to make their debut publication, and mine is just around the corner. Although this isn't the book I've always dreamed of writing, I felt compelled to write it with everything that is happening in the United States today. Facing many issues from government overreach, social injustice, racism, government finance issues, public welfare threats, and just upsetting the lives of every day citizens in general.

I began this work years ago, but the urgency only increased as more and more incidents happened within our country until I finally hammered out this book. The purpose of which is to highlight the issues we are facing and some common sense proposals I have to correct them. And we round it off by giving one major change, rewriting the Constitution of the United States of America to suit the needs of those living.

Thomas Jefferson, one of our founding fathers, while mired in controversy today because of being a slave owner, which I do not endorse, we can admire his foresight into the future and acknowledge the wisdom he imparted about Constitutions not staying stagnant and needing to evolve with the population that was living under them.

Granted he was mostly referring to the state constitution of Virginia at the time, it can be assumed that he also meant the national constitution as well, but at the time he wrote about the state constitution of Virginia, he was tired of public life and public attention as he wrote to Samuel Kercheval in mid 1816, he had already served as the second governor of Virginia from 1779-1781, prior to that he served as a Virginia House of Delegates to the Continental Congress from 1776-1779, served the Second Continental Congress from 1775-1776, was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, he served as a Colonel in the Virginia Militia from 1775-1776. In 1784 the Congress of the Confederation appointed Jefferson to serve with Benjamin Franklin in France to negotiate the treaties of amity and commerce, less than a year later he succeeded Benjamin Franklin as the Minister to France.

Soon after his return from France he accepted George Washington's invitation to become the First Secretary of State in 1790, which he served in until 1793 after disagreements in Washington's cabinet led him to return to private life until 1796 when he ran for President, which he lost to John Adams who became the second President of the United States, but, under the laws of the time because of his votes, he became the second Vice President of the United States.

In the next election Jefferson ran again against Adams and won his bid for President, vying out Adams who had gained ill effects for taxes levied as well as other notable distasteful social aspects at the time. Jefferson became the third President of the United States of America and oversaw the Louisiana purchase, organized the Louis and Clark expedition and three other western exploration expeditions of lesser known status.

Jefferson served as the third President until 1809 after a series of reputation damaging affairs, such as the attempt to annex Florida, the Chesapeake-Leopard affair, Wilkonson's misconduct incident, the Burr Conspiracy and trial, all took their toll. He did not seek reelection in the 1808 election, and on the day Madison was inaugurated as his successor, Jefferson said that he felt like "a prisoner, released from his chains".

After leaving office he returned to his home at Monticello, but remained influential with leaders in the government, corresponding with them regularly. He did not sit idle though and founded the University of Virginia in 1819, began writing his autobiography 1821, and died on July 4th, 1826, John Adams died later the same day. Then President, John Quincy Adams, the son of John Adas remarked that the the coincidence of their deaths on the nations 50th anniversary was a "visible and palpable remarks of Divine Favor".

He was buried at his home in Monticello under the epitaph that he wrote:

HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.

What he left behind was a long legacy that is still debated today in his personal views with the evidence of his own writings, and those who recorded what he supposedly had said. But even with the debates we can surmise in our time that he was correct in many facets and beliefs that would come to pass. And here we are, at the dawning of a new creation within the confines of that which binds us together as a nation, a common people, common language within defined borders and at the head of redefining what will suit the generation within which we live in this modern times, far removed from our "barbarous ancestors" as Jefferson put it.

And herein I have expanded and created my own work to be digested and debated amongst our people for changes we can rally behind, and why we should rally behind them. Because we have grown in our knowledge and wisdom and we understand the world differently than our ancestors of 236 years ago. And should we continue to endure, we must define that which governs us now and revise it, for no Constitution can be so sacred to be untouched, or unchanged, and for such a long train of abuses that have led us into the present, we must revise that which we have to improve ourselves and the future for our posterity. To that end I give you, America's Second Common Sense Constitution, and to you, the People, the power to decide and determine the fate of us all collectively, responsibly and with as much peace as we can maintain, for that is the glory and honor in our cooperation as Citizens of the United States of America.