Knowledge will forever govern ignorance

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be”. Thomas Jefferson

The American People’s Party feels that if People expect to be both ignorant and free they will be disappointed. This is not to say that a person must know it all. It is virtually impossible for any one person to be knowledgeable in ‘all topics’. Surely Mr. Jefferson was not suggesting that men must know it all. He was far wiser than that in the opinion of the American People’s Party. He would have known that no man knows it all, and that it was impossible to do so.

“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master”. Thomas Jefferson

Unfortunately, the American People’s Party feels that Mr. Jefferson’s ‘trust in the ability of men to govern themselves’ without a master was an error, and do to this their (The Founders) 'experiment in self government is failing'.

The American People’s Party strongly suspects that when Mr. Jefferson stated that in a nation that is self-governed men cannot be ‘ignorant of the Law that governs and expect to be free’. In the opinion of the American People’s Party this suspicion aligns with the words of James Madison.

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives”. James Madison

Mr. Madison seems to be saying that a nation of self governed People who expect to be free must arm themselves with knowledge. It is the opinion of the American People’s Party that the knowledge of which Mr. Madison is referring to is knowledge of the Law that governs.