...extra-legal freedom to the encroachments of any form of political power; it is, as Thomas Jefferson put it, "what the people are entitled to against every government...and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference.'"1" "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech," asserts the most...

...formation of the new American government, Thomas Jefferson argued passionately for a bill of rights: "it is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no government should refuse, or rest on inference." 3 Having seen the Virginia Bill of Rights violated...

...to ratification of the Constitution as initially written. Letters from his mentor Jefferson, arguing that "a bill of rights is what the people are entitled...just government should refuse, or rest on inference," helped convince Madison that the Constitution should be fortified with guarantees of specific rights,...

...Jefferson, who supported the Constitution's adoption, agreed with the Anti-Federalists on this point: "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."16 As it turned out, this final concern was the only one which the Anti-Federalists saw...

...deeper themes, insights, and questions. Play, doodle, draw — writing on the tablecloths is encouraged. "A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled...particular, and what no just government should refuse." — Thomas Jefferson Rights are what no library should refuse. Authentic Rights are easily agreed upon...

...of course, not only in the New World, but in the Old as well; for as Jefferson would go on to write: "a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth.'"'1 Encouraged by this successful American Revohttion, and pressed to the breaking point by...

...president made a passionate plea for a document that would protect the rights of individual Americans: "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled...just government should refuse, or rest on inference." Support for that view threatened the adoption of the new Constitution. In the end, the states did ratify...

...Jefferson could not understand why anyone should resist the idea of a bill of rights, seeing it as 'what the people are entitled to against every government...just government should refuse or rest on inference'. A British Conservative and former minister, John Patten, sees it differently. He takes the traditional...

...injure rights. Even if there was no danger to liberty, Jefferson lectured Madison on December 20, 1787, "a bill of rights is what the people are entitled...every government on earth, general or particular, & what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference." In late 1787 and 1788, Americans divided...

...federal bill of rights was purposely omitted from the US Constitution. When Jefferson wrote from France, "a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth," Madison responded that in his experience, "parchment barriers" like those of Jefferson's Virginia had...