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" Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences. "
Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late ... - Page 275
by Thomas Jefferson - 1829
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Samuel Adams

James Kendall Hosmer - 1885 - 478 pages
...that the proposition supplied the vital omission of a bill of rights, which was what " the people were entitled to against every government on earth, general...just government should refuse or rest on inference." Bancroft is careful to point out that Adams by no means makes the acceptance of the amendments a condition...
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Transactions of the Annual Meeting

South Carolina Bar Association - 1886 - 742 pages
...the laws of nations." Jefferson declared further : "that a Bill of Rights was what the people were entitled to against every government on earth, general...just government should refuse or rest on inference." As the foremost political thinker and writer of his own age, if not of any age in history, as the author...
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United States Reports: ... and Rules Announced at ...

United States. Supreme Court - 1889 - 810 pages
...government having none but enumerated' powers ; but Jefferson urged from Paris that a bill of rights was " what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular," and that one ought to be added, " providing clearly and without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion,...
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Address in Commemoration of the Inauguration of George Washington as First ...

Melville Weston Fuller - 1890 - 72 pages
...government having none but enumerated powers ; but Jefferson urged from Paris that a bill of rights was "what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, " and that one ought to be added, "providing clearly and without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion,...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1784-1787

Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 520 pages
...wandered should be brought back to it, and to have established general right instead of general wrong. Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people...every government on earth, general or particular, £ what no just government should retMMgr rest on inferences. The second feature I ' V&- and greatly...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1784-1787

Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 534 pages
...wandered should be brought back to it, and to have established general right instead of general wrong. Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people...every government on earth, general or particular, & what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences. The second feature I dislike, and greatly...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1784-1787

Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 516 pages
...wandered should be brought back to it, and to have established general right instead of general wrong. Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people...every government on earth, general or particular, & what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences. The second feature I dislike, and greatly...
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Studies in American History: A Survey of American History Source Extracts

Howard Walter Caldwell - 1898 - 268 pages
...by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations. . . . Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people...every government on earth, general or particular, and just what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences. The second feature I dislike, ......
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Forty Years of Oratory: Daniel Wolsey Voorhees Lectures, Addresses ..., Volume 2

Daniel Wolsey Voorhees - 1898 - 478 pages
...the laws of nations." Jefferson declared further, " that a bill of rights was what the people were entitled to against every government on earth, general...just government should refuse or rest on inference." As the foremost political thinker and writer of his own age, if not of any age in history ; as the...
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Report of a Special Meeting ... and the ... Annual Meeting of the ..., Volume 4

Colorado Bar Association - 1901 - 730 pages
...rights unnecessary to our constitution, Jefferson again from Paris writes: "That a bill of rights was what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular," and that one ought to be added, providing clearly without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion,...
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