Anti-American conservatives!

And it could happen here.

That should read "will" instead of "could." Since Texas is such a large purchaser of texbooks, its state Department of Education has the effect of setting textbook standards nationwide. Get ready to see Jefferson excised from high school textbooks across the country.

Bastards.

So much for the Declaration of Independence.

University presses need to answer this challenge and create a new standard for public school textbooks, including electronic delivery to students over the internet. The trade textbook publishers should be cut out of the process entirely if they submit to this backwoods foolishness in Texas, which they show every sign of doing.

So are conservatives dropping their frequent assertion that the founding fathers were Christian and that this country was founded on Christian principles?

Trying a different angle to rewrite history now?

In 1776,Jefferson was not the only Enlightenment political philosopher.But,IMO,Jefferson was the most important to world history.

Because the Declaration of Independence was the foundation of the US Constitution.And the Constitution is grounded in the abiding Jeffersonian principal:"The consent of the governed".

The study of Jeffersonian principal not only lies in Articles 1 thru 7 of the Constitution.But the evolution of the Constitution via amendment.

The Bill of Rights.
The 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.
The 15th Amendment guartanteeing blacks the right to vote.
The 17th Amendment provided for the people to elect Senators
The 19th Amendment established women's suffrage.
The 24th Amendment prohibited the poll tax.

I can not imagine how one could teach world history without the bedrock of Jeffersonian principal & how the United States has attempted to achieve that prinicipal "in order to form a more perfect union." by first the radifiction of the Constitution & the 234 year history of amendments to the Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson:

"May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings & security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others."

Guess he would be a tea partier today, except maybe for all that ignorance and superstition v. science and reason and stuff. Anyway, sounds like world history to me.

I , being a Texan... Certainly hope Texas decides to Leave Mr Jeffersons signature as it is!!

He was after all, One of our ForeFathers. and I have No respect for any political person that wants to remove His name Just because of Their opinion

doing, the game they r playing, it done all the time. u critics just don't like the direction texas is taking it. i agree, but now u know how the rest of us feel when u do it!

I’m a Democratic Party candidate for U.S. Congress in the 5th district of Tennessee. In spite of this, I have been denied in having my candidacy listed on the Tennessee Democratic Party web site.

Furthermore, message board postings from anyone (including myself) criticizing the policies of the National Democratic Party are deleted from the web site. Nothing is exempt from deletion if it is in opposition, and these include single quotes from the Bible, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, etc.

At the very least, many of us as Democrats are being deprived an equal voice within our own Democratic Party.

I welcome anyone to contact me in discussing this matter by the below phone number or email address.

Eric Pearson
Phone: (615) 852-7553
Email: epearson@democraticreformparty.com

Stop saying you're a Democrat. You're not.

GO AWAY. Play your silly game somewhere else. I am really tired of your constant idiotic dribble.

ANYONE claim to be a democrat if they were not? this is a democrat party hack site and we all know that and we all expect what comes with it.

Anybody who would support this is absolutely anti-american. I don't care what party it is, but in this case it happens to be the conservatives. And this is what we want in 2012? That's so much better than Obama. Revisionism of history is wrong. Our kids deserve better.