...clearly shown by his published letters to James Madison. Under date of December 20, 1787, he says: "Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences."1' Under date of July 31, 1788, he says: "I sincerely rejoice at the acceptance of our...

...of sophisms, for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies. ... A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth." — " The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia," p. 88. When General Washington first became President, Mr. Madison...

...entertained by his school for a limitation upon the powers of government : "Let me add that a bill or rights is what the people are entitled to against...government on earth, general or particular, and what no government should refuse or rest on inference." He considered that the inconveniences to be expected...

...• Ibid., 368. compromise of the opposite claims of the great and little States'; but he insisted that a bill of rights 'is what the people are entitled...and what no just government should refuse or rest in inference.' Professing himself 'no friend to a very energetic government' as 'always oppressive,'...

...William CarmichaeL compromise of the opposite claims of the great and little States'; but he insisted that a bill of rights 'is what the people are entitled...and what no just government should refuse or rest in inference.' Professing himself 'no friend to a very energetic government' as 'always oppressive,'...

...to Congress all powers "without check, limitation or control." And Thomas Jefferson wrote to Madison that "a Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled...every government on earth, general or particular." l 1 Elliot's Debates, III, 317, 442, 446-449. 461, 593-594. Jefferson (Ford's Ed.), Jefferson to Madison,...

...is not reserved, ... is surely a gratis dictum, the reverse of which might just as well be said ... a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to...just government should refuse, or rest on inference." George Washington: A letter to Patrick Henry (1787) " I take the liberty of sending you a copy of the...

...Paris, December 20, 1787, he said: "I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away. Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people...just government should refuse or rest on inference." ("Works," Vol. 6, p. 388.) Many people were advocating a conditional ratification or a second convention...

...jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land, and not by the laws of nations. . . . Let me add, that a bill of rights is what the people...every government on earth, general or particular; and no just government should refuse it, or rest on inferences." And to General Washington he wrote a few...

...petition, but not to use that right to cover calumniating insinuations.—Thomas Jefferson (1808). A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to...and what no just government should refuse or rest on inferences.—Thomas Jefferson (1787). The community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible...