@taba,
But then, it was the Republicans who went against those states who felt they had the right to secede, not that there was anything wrong with the Republicans opposing that. And it was the Republicans who favored keeping troops in the Southern states for quite a few years after the The Civil War was over. Fact is, over the course of nearly two centuries, it is not surprising that the parties switch back and forth on states rights, centralization of power, etc. However, that party that Jefferson started, regardless of their positions of states rights, etc, was the entity that became the Democratic Party.
Not to mention that it is hard to imagine Jefferson being OK with laws that said a woman had to have an ultrasound thing shoved up her birth canal before getting a legal procedure. That's a massive invasion of privacy.