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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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James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights

Richard Labunski - 2006 - 352 pages
...Jefferson had criticized the Constitution's lack of such amendments the previous December, when he wrote "that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, generally or particular, & what no government should refuse or rest on inference."46 Madison recognized...
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Contested Words: Legal Restrictions on Freedom of Speech in Liberal Democracies

Ian Cram - 2006 - 260 pages
...minorities, the claim to high-level protection is much less compelling. Judicial Review and Constitutionalism A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth. (Thomas Jefferson, 1 787):" Where once politicians, judges and academics alike contested at length...
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The Treaty of Paris, 1783: A Primary Source Examination of the Treaty That ...

Lee Jedson - 2005 - 68 pages
...Independence and future third president, wrote a letter to his friend James Madison. In it, he said: "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth." It was Madison, in fact, who ended up drafting most of the Bill of Rights. He originally wrote seventeen...
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McCulloch V. Maryland: State V. Federal Power

Susan Dudley Gold - 2008 - 150 pages
...reservations, insisting that a bill of rights be included. "A bill of rights," he wrote Madison in 1787, "is what the people are entitled to against every...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences." Congress used many of Jefferson's ideas in the final version of the Bill of Rights. EnumeraxeD...
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America's Survival Guide

Michael Warren - 2007 - 235 pages
...rights of citizens. Indeed, Jefferson articulated the sentiments of most Americans when he averred that "a bill of rights is what the people are entitled...government on earth, general or particular, and what no government should refuse, or rest on inference." At the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Patrick Henry,...
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Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power

Jeremy D. Bailey - 2007 - 275 pages
...specifically granted to the government would be necessarily reserved by the people. As Jefferson put it, "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled...government on earth, general or particular, and what no government should refuse, or rest on inference."51 Although he wrote Jefferson often, Madison did not...
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James Madison

Dan Elish - 2008 - 104 pages
...A BILL OF RIGHTS." Thomas Jefferson saw the issue differently. Writing from France, he told Madison that "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth." In the end Madison realized that more Americans would support their new government if a bill of rights...
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Cultus Americanus: Varieties of the Liberal Tradition in American Political ...

Brent Gilchrist - 2006 - 322 pages
...of a Government That Almost Didn't Happen," New York Times (November 3, 1989); Philip Morris, "... a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth. . . ," New York Times (November 7, 1989). 135. Mobil, "the most monstrous and absurd injustices," New...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution

Kevin Gutzman - 2007 - 258 pages
...Treaty of Paris, a former president of Congress (where he achieved such influence 50 What a Patriot Said "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government." Thomas Jefferson that a leading historian of the period, John Kaminski, recently called him a "prime...
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America-A Purpose-Driven Nation

Philip Michael Pantana (Sr.) - 2007 - 486 pages
...Election Day Why: It's Your Civic Duty; Elections Matter CHAPTER 6 Contract With Conservatives Abill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government. —Thomas Jefferson The history of freedom is the history of the restriction of the power of government...
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