Quote from Thomas Jefferson, |
"With respect to the new Government, nine or ten States will probably have accepted by the end of this month. The others may oppose it. Virginia, I think, will be of this number. Besides other objections of less moment, she [Virginia] will insist on annexing a bill of rights to the new Constitution, i.e. a bill wherein the Government shall declare that, 1. Religion shall be free; 2. Printing presses free; 3. Trials by jury preserved in all cases; 4. No monopolies in commerce; 5. No standing army. Upon receiving this bill of rights, she will probably depart from her other objections; and this bill is so much to the interest of all the States, that I presume they will offer it, and thus our Constitution be amended, and our Union closed by the end of the present year."
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Thomas Jefferson (more quotes by Thomas Jefferson or books by/about Thomas Jefferson) |
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(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President |
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February 12th, 1788, Jefferson letter to Mr. Dumas |
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Constitution, Government, Jury, Military, Militia, Monopoly, Press, Religion, Republic, Sovereignty |
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