As president, thomas jefferson promised to protect state rights and limit the power of the federal government true or false

This statement is true. Throughout his extensive political career, and as third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson adhered to a view of federal government with limited and restricted powers, and of local and state governments with extended rights - as he already demonstrated in the the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which he secretly wrote together with Madison and which granted the states the right to nullify a federal law if this was deemed to be unconstitutional. Already in his inaugural speech he promised "a wise and frugal government," and, instead of riding in a horse-drawn carriage, he walked to and from the inauguration.