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Jefferson was committed to republican simplicity. He cut the army and navy expenditures, cut the budget, eliminated taxes on whiskey,houses and slaves and fired all the federal; tax collectors. He reduced the army to three thousand soldiers and a hundred seventy two officers, the navy to six frigates and foreign embassies to three in Britain, France and Spain.

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