... idea of diminished federal rule and the preservation of strong states' rights is surely consistent with the Jeffersonian ideal. Similarly, Document B illustrates this great man's view that the federal government should not interfere in religious matters. He feels that since the Constitution does not explicitly give the power for centralized control over religion, it should thus be left in the hands of the states. "Certainly no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated, to the general government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority..." These two documents, at least, do tend to support Thomas Jefferson's commitment to the Jeffersonian Republican Party platform; however, later in his life it appears that some of his decisions are not in complete agreement with the values of a strict Jeffersonian. Unlike the issues discussed ...

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