Authors: Thomas Jefferson

1764–1787

Notes on the State of Virginia: Query 18

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (London: John Stockdale, 1787), 192–2113, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Notes_on_the_State_of_Virginia/-KlbAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. The Constitution of the State and Its Several Charters . . .This constitution was formed when

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1789–1825

Inaugural Address (1801)

Source: Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/201948. Friends and Fellow Citizens: Called upon to undertake the duties of the

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The Embargo Act

President Thomas Jefferson, Message to Congress on the Embargo, December 17, 1807, Annals of Congress, Senate, 10th Congress, 1st session, 49–50, A Century of Lawmaking, Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=017/llac017.db&recNum=22; “Proclamation

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Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper

“Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 10 September 1814,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0471. … You will say, we have been devastated in the meantime. True. some of our public buildings

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Thomas Jefferson to Roger Chew Weightman

“From Thomas Jefferson to Roger Chew Weightman, 24 June 1826,” Founders Online,National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-6179. The kind invitation I receive from you, on the part of the citizens of the city

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