Jefferson: Political Writings

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Life and times......Page 15
Jefferson as theorist......Page 24
Chronology......Page 34
Biographical synopses......Page 37
A note on sources......Page 47
Bibliographical note......Page 50
I A Private Man in Public Life......Page 57
I.1 To Giovanni Fabbroni......Page 59
I.2 To James Monroe......Page 61
I.3 To Archibald Stuart......Page 64
I.4 To Maria Cosway......Page 66
I.5 To Angelica Schuyler Church......Page 77
I.6 To Dr.Benjamin Rush......Page 78
I.7 To Samuel Smith......Page 79
I.8 Services to My Country......Page 82
I.9 To Dr. Benjamin Rush......Page 84
I.10 Rules of Etiquette [for President Jefferson’s White House]......Page 86
I.11 To P.-S. DuPont de Nemours......Page 87
I.12 To the Inhabitants of Albemarle County, in Virginia......Page 88
I.13 To Charles Willson Peale......Page 89
I.14 To Dr. Benjamin Rush......Page 90
I.15 To John Adams......Page 92
I.16 To Dr. Walter Jones......Page 94
I.17 To John Adams......Page 98
I.18 [Classification of Books in Jefferson’s Library, 1815]......Page 101
I.19 To John Adams......Page 102
I.20 To John Adams......Page 104
I.21 To John Adams......Page 108
I.22 To John Adams......Page 109
I.23 To Thomas Jefferson Smith......Page 111
I.24 To John Adams......Page 112
I.25 To James Madison......Page 113
II Natural Law, Natural Right, and Revolution......Page 117
II.1 A Summary View of the Rights of British America......Page 120
II.2 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms......Page 136
II.3 To John Randolph......Page 143
II.4 From the Autobiography......Page 146
II.5 A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled [Jefferson’s draft]......Page 152
II.6 The Declaration of Independence [as amended and adopted in Congress], July 4, 1776......Page 158
II.7 To Rev. James Madison......Page 161
II.8 To James Madison......Page 163
II.9 To William Stephens Smith......Page 165
II.10 To David Humphreys......Page 167
II.II From the Autobiography......Page 170
II.12 To William Short......Page 189
II.13 To Dr. Thomas Cooper......Page 192
II.14 To Francis W. Gilmer......Page 198
II.15 To James Madison......Page 201
II.16 To Henry Lee......Page 203
II.17 To Roger C. Weightman......Page 204
III Self-government......Page 206
III.1 To Edward Carrington......Page 208
III.2 To Thomas Paine......Page 210
III.3 To Diodati......Page 212
III.4 Opinion on Residence Bill......Page 215
III.5 Petition on Election of Jurors......Page 220
III.6 To Elbridge Gerry......Page 223
III.7 To Gideon Granger......Page 225
III.8 To Jeremiah Moor......Page 227
III.9 First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801......Page 228
III.10 To Dr. Thomas Cooper......Page 233
III.11 To Dr Joseph Priestley......Page 234
III.12 To John Breckenridge......Page 236
III.13 To DeWitt Clinton......Page 237
III.14 To John Tyler......Page 238
III.15 To Dr. Samuel Brown......Page 240
III.16 To John Adams......Page 241
III.17 To the Marquis de Lafayette......Page 247
III.18 To Baron von Humboldt......Page 248
III.19 To Joseph C. Cabell......Page 251
III.20 To the Marquis de Lafayette......Page 253
III.21 To Joseph C. Cabell......Page 258
III.22 To John Taylor......Page 262
III.23 To Samuel Kercheval......Page 266
III.24 To Isaac H. Tiffany......Page 273
III.25 To Samuel Kercheval......Page 274
III.26 To Baron von Humboldt......Page 276
III.27 To John Adams......Page 278
III.28 To Isaac H. Tiffany......Page 280
III.29 To John Adams......Page 281
III.30 To John Adams......Page 283
III.31 To Edward Livingston......Page 284
IV Moral Sense, Civic Education, and Freedom of the Press......Page 287
IV.1 To Robert Skipwith......Page 289
IV.2 A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge......Page 291
IV.3 To Peter Carr......Page 299
IV.4 To John Banister, Junior......Page 303
IV.5 To George Wythe......Page 305
IV.6 To Peter Carr......Page 308
IV.7 Notes on Virginia: Query XIV......Page 312
IV.8 To Thomas Mann Randolph......Page 316
IV.9 To Dr. Joseph Priestley......Page 319
IV.10 To Dr. Joseph Priestley......Page 321
IV.11 To Dr. Benjamin Rush......Page 322
Syllabus of an estimate of the merit of the doctrines of Jesus, compared with those of others......Page 323
IV.12 To Judge John Tyler......Page 326
IV.13 To Thomas Seymour......Page 328
IV.14 To John Norvell......Page 329
IV.15 To William Short......Page 332
IV.16 To Thomas Jefferson Randolph......Page 333
IV.17 To James Fishback......Page 336
IV.18 To William Duane......Page 338
IV.19 To Thomas Law......Page 341
IV.20 To Dr. Thomas Cooper......Page 345
IV.21 To P.-S. DuPont de Nemours......Page 346
IV.22 To John Adams......Page 350
IV.23 Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia......Page 353
IV.24 To John Brazier......Page 366
IV.25 To William Short......Page 369
Syllabus of the doctrines of Epicurus.......Page 371
IV.26 To —......Page 372
V The Constitutions of Virginia and France......Page 376
V.1 From the Autobiography......Page 377
V.2 Notes on Virginia: Query XIII......Page 380
V.3 To Edmund Pendleton......Page 391
V.4 Proposed Constitution for Virginia......Page 394
V.5 To Rabaut de St. Etienne......Page 405
Proposed Charter for France......Page 406
VI The U. S. Constitution......Page 408
VI.1 From the Autobiography......Page 410
VI.2 To Dr. Richard Price......Page 414
VI.3 To John Adams......Page 415
VI.4 To James Madison......Page 416
VI.5 To Edward Carrington......Page 419
VI.6 To James Madison......Page 421
VI.7 To James Madison......Page 423
VI.8 To John Taylor......Page 425
VI.9 To Dr. Joseph Priestley......Page 427
VI.10 To Wilson C. Nicholas......Page 429
VI.11 To John B. Colvin......Page 431
VI.12 To Judge Spencer Roane......Page 434
VI.13 To William Charles Jarvis......Page 437
VI.14 To Major John Cartwright......Page 438
VII Religious Liberty and Toleration......Page 445
VII.1 A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (1777)......Page 446
The different religions received into that state?......Page 448
VIII.3 To Messrs. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephram Robbins, and Stephen S. Nelson, a Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association, in…......Page 452
VII.4 To Rev. Samuel Miller......Page 453
VII.5 To Mrs. Samuel H. Smith......Page 454
VII.6 To Mathew Carey......Page 456
VII.7 To William Short......Page 457
VII.8 To Dr. Thomas Cooper......Page 461
VIII Political Parties......Page 464
VIII.1 To Francis Hopkinson......Page 466
VIII.2 To James Madison......Page 468
VIII.3 To William Branch Giles......Page 469
VIII.4 To Philip Mazzei......Page 472
VIII.5 To James Sullivan......Page 473
VIII.6 To John Taylor......Page 474
VIII.8 To Joel Barlow......Page 477
VIII.9 To Abigail Adams......Page 479
VIII.10 To Thomas Cooper......Page 480
VIII.11 To Dr. Benjamin Rush......Page 481
VIII.12 To John Melish......Page 486
VIII.13 To John Adams......Page 490
VIII.14 From the Anas......Page 494
VIII.15 To William Johnson......Page 505
VIII.16 To William Johnson......Page 506
VIII.17 To the Marquis de Lafayette......Page 513
VIII.18 To Henry Lee......Page 516
VIII.19 To William Short......Page 517
IX Race and Slavery......Page 521
IX.1 Report of Government for the Western Territory......Page 523
IX.2 To Dr. Richard Price......Page 525
IX.3 A Bill Concerning Slaves......Page 526
IX.4 To Jean Nicholas Démeunier......Page 528
IX.5 To Jean Pierre Brissot de Warville......Page 529
Laws......Page 530
IX.7 Notes on Virginia: Query XVIII......Page 536
IX.8 To Dr. Edward Bancroft......Page 538
IX.9 To Benjamin Banneker......Page 539
IX.10 To the Marquis de Condorcet......Page 540
IX.11 To St. George Tucker......Page 541
IX.12 To the Governor of Virginia (James Monroe)......Page 543
IX.13 To Christopher Ellery......Page 546
IX.15 To Henri Grégoire......Page 547
IX.16 To Edward Coles......Page 548
IX.17 To Dr. Thomas Humphreys......Page 551
IX.18 To John Holmes......Page 552
IX.19 To James Heaton......Page 553
X Native Americans......Page 555
X.1 Notes on Virginia: Query VI......Page 556
X.2 Notes on Virginia: Query XI......Page 564
X.3 To General Chastellux......Page 571
X.4 To Charles Carroll......Page 574
X.5 To Brother Handsome Lake......Page 575
X.6 To Benjamin Hawkins......Page 577
X.7 To Governor Wm. Henry Harrison......Page 579
X.8 To the Brothers of the Choctaw Nation......Page 583
X.9 Second Inaugural Address......Page 586
X.10 To the Secretary of War (Henry Dearborn)......Page 591
X.11 To John Adams......Page 592
XI Women (not) in Politics......Page 596
XI.1 To Anne Willing Bingham......Page 597
XI.2 To Anne Willing Bingham......Page 599
XI.3 To General George Washington......Page 600
XI.5 To Nathaniel Burwell......Page 601
XII Law of Nations......Page 604
XII.1 To John Jay......Page 605
XII.2 To Count Hogendorp......Page 607
XII.3 Opinion on the French Treaties......Page 609
XII.4 To Benjamin Austin......Page 621
XIII Innovation and Progress......Page 626
XIII.1 To Dr. Joseph Priestley......Page 627
XIII.2 To John Adams......Page 628
XIII.3 To Isaac McPherson......Page 631
XIII.4 To John Waldo......Page 638
XIII.5 To Joseph Milligan......Page 644
XIII.6 To William Ludlow......Page 646
XIV Relations between Generations......Page 648
XIV.1 To James Madison......Page 649
XIV.2 To John Wayles Eppes......Page 654
Appendices......Page 661
Appendix A: James Madison to Jefferson......Page 662
Appendix B: John Adams to Timothy Pickering......Page 665
Appendix C: Seneca Falls Declaration......Page 667
Appendix D: The Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln)......Page 669
Index......Page 671