[Gods_Mercenary]

First of all, even in a perfect democracy, government is tied to the will of the majority of the people. Jefferson would have supported the government not interfering in most aspects of a person's life no matter how much the majority wanted to. Second of all, the people as a whole are idiotic. Jefferson thought that through the correct environment and tighter voting requirements, the voting people could be made inteligent and virtuous enough to sustain a functioning republic for quite a while. Naive, perhaps, but jefferson was nothing if not idealistically naive. All power changeover does is ensure more people are drawn into the cult of power. Remember, the founding fathers noted (though they borrowed their ideas from others) that Tyrranny is often not a function of one person, but of the institution itself.

Jefferson's ideas were not theories, really (I apologize for using the term), they were a philosophical line of reasoning, the parts of which were interdependant "power=bad, government=power, therefore, government=bad" You can't just take a chunk of that line of reasoning out and say jefferson agreed with you.