He was the third President of the United States, the most intellectual figure in shaping America’s early history, and a voice of reason in his own time as well as today.

The thought is enough to imagine him rolling in his grave, but, like fellow Founding Father, Thomas Paine, he found himself at the center of censorship efforts by the Texas State Board of Education in 2010.

In March, 2010, the TSBE decided to remove Thomas Jefferson from history books, blatantly rewrite American history, and censor scientific principles from all public schools in an effort to combat secular philosophy in favor of a more religiously and politically-motivated one by erasing the words of Jefferson and others of the Enlightenment period from textbooks.

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