Originally Posted by
prooftheory
Well, Thomas Jefferson should be taken to represent classical small-state liberalism much like Locke.
Maybe for you americans. For Europe small state liberalism is a niche political ideal since we have perfected the "socialism" fox news demonizes so readily.
Jefferson was a notable historical character no doubt about that and the name should ring a bell with anyone. However Locke is also a notable philosopher (one of my favorites).
You should not however assume knowledge about the american history on my continent since for us it's just not that relevant. We have so much of our own stuff. Like you could do a life's work with just how the two legal systems split and are so different today even though both (civil law, better, common law, worse) have the exact same heritage. And that's just law. there's a thousand different specialities so you can imagine how busy we are.
oh how I wish I was able to post P&R