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AND THEN THOMAS JEFFERSON WROTE "NO MUSLIMS EVER" IN THE CONSTITUTION.
It’s a common misconception that Thomas Jefferson participated in drafting the U.S. Constitution in 1787. But as Republican presidential candidate and retired pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson points out in his latest book, “A More Perfect Union,” Jefferson was “missing in action,” serving in Paris as minister to France.
That did not stop Carson from praising Jefferson yesterday as one of the most impressive of the Founding Fathers because he “tried to craft our Constitution in a way that it would control peoples’ natural tendencies and control the natural growth of the government.”
It’s not the first time Carson has abused Jefferson’s history.
“Thomas Jefferson himself said, ‘Gun control works great for the people who are law-abiding citizens and it does nothing for the criminals, and all it does is put the people at risk,’ ” he told Fox.
Jefferson never said that.
Carson’s grasp of the founding era has proven weak in the past.
Earlier this month he asserted that “every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no elected office experience”.
27 of the 51 signers had experience in elected office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/23/no-dr-ben-carson-thomas-jefferson-did-not-craft-our-constitution/
