Source: “Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank, 15 February 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-19-02-0051. … I consider the foundation of the Constitution as
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
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
Source: Thomas Jefferson to W. H. Torrance, June 11, 1815, Library of Congress, Manuscript/Mixed Material, https://www.loc.gov/item/mtjbib022064/. . . .The . . . question, whether the judges are invested with exclusive
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 22 (London: John Stockdale, 1785), available at https://teachingamericanhistory.org/bc2z. … To this estimate of our abilities, let me add a word as
Thomas Jefferson to William Short, January 3, 1793, available at https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-25-02-0016. … The tone of your letters had for some time given me pain, on account of the extreme warmth
President Thomas Jefferson, First Annual Message to Congress, December 8, 1801, Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress, https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/mss/mtj//mtj1/025/025_0179_0186.pdf. … To this state of general peace with which we have been
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
“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
In this letter to the mayor of Washington, DC, Jefferson apologized for being unable to attend celebrations there marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration but noted that he took comfort in the fact that the Declaration’s principles were beginning to take root and would eventually triumph around the globe.
