Thomas Jefferson's Little Big Mistake

There are some people who hold the image of Thomas Jefferson to be, if not perfect, than near perfect. Then there are the rest of us who believe that he was a great and important man who sometimes made mistakes. One of his smaller mistakes has recently come to light with the help of modern technology. It seems that in the original rough draft of the Declaration Of Independence he more than once made the mistake of referring to the American People as "subjects." Instead of "Citizens." Now if you know anything about the difference between a Democracy and a monarchy then you know that this is a serious no no. "Subjects" are always subject to the rule of a monarch. In a Democracy there are no subjects only citizens who have rights, and can vote, and have a say in how their government is run and are not subject to the desires of a king. It was a Freudian slip that Jefferson made and he sought to fix it. With the use of high resolution digital cameras the document was photographed and it was discovered that Jefferson himself probably was the one who erased the word "subject" in several places and wrote the word "citizens" over it in its place.