Are the ideals jefferson and paine defend in their writings still important to americans?

Yes

Explanation:

those points that were made while they were still in power are used today

“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.

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