Thomas Jefferson
historical figure · 2 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Jefferson · Mr. Jefferson · his like
in the texts
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
American statesman named as one of the negotiators whose diplomatic correspondence with France is cited as authority on who holds the right to construe a compact.
Gerry, in their negotiations with revolutionary France, have furnished us with an admirable treatise, both to fix the residence of the right, and to display the wantonness of construction, assumed without right.
But this constitutional question is deliberately and distinctly stated, apparently upon the most profound consideration, in a style, and with a precision, which it would be presumptuous in me to defend, in certain resolutions of the Kentucky legislature, passed in the year 1798, said to have been drawn by Mr.
The federal expenditure in the time of Washington amounted to about three millions annually, and in that of Jefferson to about six.
Ancient Law
American statesman whose writings reflect the influence of French natural-law ideas, notably in the Declaration of Independence.
A very few glances at the writings of Jefferson will show how strongly his mind was affected by the semi-juridical, semi-popular opinions which were fashionable in France, and we cannot doubt that it was sympathy with the peculiar ideas of the French jurists which led him and the other colonial lawyers who guided the course of events in America to join the specially French assumption that “all men …