During a recent TV interview, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson was asked which Founding Father impressed him the most. "I’m particularly impressed with Thomas Jefferson, who seemed to have a very deep insight into the way people would react and tried to craft a constitution in a way that would control people’s natural tendencies and control the natural growth of government," Carson replied during a Nov. 22 broadcast on C-SPAN. Peter Onuf, a retired University of Virginia professor who specialized in Jefferson, wrote in an email, "Jefferson never...