The Portable Thomas Jefferson

by Jefferson, Thomas (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780140150803
• ISBN10: 0140150803
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1977-10-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

Includes A Summary View of the Rights of British America and Notes on the State of Virginia complete; seventy-nine letters; "Response to the Citizens of Albemarle," 1790; "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank," 1791; and many other writings.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
A Note on the Selections	xliii
I A Summary View of the Rights of British America	1	(22)
II Notes on the State of Virginia	23	(210)
III Public Papers and Addresses	233	(114)
The Declaration of Independence, 1776	235	(7)
Draft Constitution for Virginia, 1776	242	(9)
A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1777	251	(3)
Report of a Plan of Government for the Western Territory, 1784	254	(5)
Response to the Citizens of Albemarle, 1790	259	(2)
Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank, 1791	261	(7)
Opinion on the French Treaties, 1793	268	(13)
The Kentucky Resolutions, 1798	281	(9)
First Inaugural Address, 1801	290	(6)
To Elias Shipman and Others, A Committee of the Merchants of new Haven, 1801	296	(4)
First Annual Message to Congress, 1801	300	(3)
To Nehemiah Dodge and Others, A Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association, in the State of Connecticut, 1802	303	(2)
To Brother Handsome Lake, 1802	305	(3)
Instructions to Captain Lewis, 1803	308	(8)
Second Inaugural Address, 1805	316	(6)
Fifth Annual Message to Congress, 1805	322	(3)
Sixth Annual Message to Congress, 1806	325	(3)
To the Society of Tammany ..., 1808	328	(2)
To the Inhabitants of Albemarle Country, in Virginia, 1809	330	(2)
Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia, 1818	332	(15)
IV Letters	347	(240)
To Robet Skipwith, August 3, 1771
A gentleman's library	349	(3)
Robert Skipwith
Between reconciliation and independence	352	(3)
John Randolph
The Virginia constitution	355	(3)
Edmund Pendleton
Music, ``the favorite passion of my soul''	358	(3)
Giovanni Fabbroni
``a true Whig in science''	361	(2)
David Rittenhouse
The limits of political duty	363	(3)
James Monroe
Advice to a young daughter	366	(1)
Martha Jefferson
The Society of the Cincinnati	367	(5)
George Washington
``Our motto...`nil desperandum' ''	372	(2)
Richard Price
Treaties and the blessings of America	374	(4)
James Monroe
The Virginia Delegates in Congress, July 12, 1785
A statue of Washington	378	(2)
``An honest heart being the first blessing...''	380	(3)
Peter Carr
The risks and the benefits of foreign commerce	383	(3)
John Jay
Climate and American character	386	(2)
Chastellux
A Capitol for Virginia	388	(2)
James Madison
The vaunted scene of Europe	390	(2)
Charles Bellini
The vices of European education	392	(3)
John Banister, Jr.
Property and natural right	395	(3)
James Madison
Education and the public happiness	398	(2)
George Wythe
Dialogue between My Head and My Heart	400	(12)
Maria Cosway
Homer, New Jersey farmers, and the wheel	412	(2)
St. John de Crevecoeur
``The people are the only censors...''	414	(1)
Edward Carrington
``a little rebellion now and then''	415	(3)
James Madison
In love with the Maison quarree	418	(3)
Madame de Tesse
The joys and rewards of travel	421	(2)
Lafayette
Reason, the only oracle	423	(5)
Peter Carr
A few words on the Constitution	428	(5)
James Madison
Travel Notes for Messrs. Rutledge and Shippen, June 19, 1788
Objects of attention for an American	433	(1)
Bacon, Locke and Newton	434	(1)
John Trumbull
``neither federalist nor antifederalist''	435	(3)
Francis Hopkinson
A bill of rights	438	(2)
James Madison
A charter for France	440	(3)
Rabaut de St. Etienne
``the first chapter...of European liberty''	443	(1)
Diodati
``the earth belongs to the living''	444	(7)
James Madison
An affectionate adieu to France	451	(2)
Madame d'Enville
The Potomac capital	453	(1)
Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant
Homage to a black man	454	(1)
Benjamin Banneker
The President of the United States (George Washington), September 9, 1792
The conflict with Hamilton	455	(9)
French blood and American liberty	464	(2)
William Short
Peaceable coercion	466	(1)
James Madison
The President and the democratic societies	467	(3)
James Madison
``an Anglican monarchical aristocratical party''	470	(1)
Phillip Mazzei
Working with Adams	471	(3)
Elbridge Gerry
Union and ``the reign of witches''	474	(3)
John Taylor
``These...are my principles''	477	(2)
Elbridge Gerry
Common law and the will of the nation	479	(4)
Edmund Randolph
Something new under the sun	483	(2)
Doctor Joseph Priestley
The affair of Louisiana	485	(3)
Robert R. Livingston
Dry-docking the navy	488	(2)
Benjamin H. Latrobe
The morals of Jesus	490	(4)
Doctor Benjamin Rush
Plans for Louisiana	494	(3)
John Breckinridge
Political economy and American exceptionalism	497	(2)
Jean Baptiste Say
A city plan against disease	499	(2)
Governor William C. C. Claiborne
A tribute of gratitude	501	(1)
Doctor Edward Jenner
Gardens for Monticello	501	(3)
William Hamilton
History, Hume, and newspapers	504	(3)
John Norvell
A subpoena against the President	507	(2)
George Hay
Bones for the National Institute	509	(2)
Lacepede
Rules for a grandson	511	(4)
Thomas Jefferson Randolph
The republic of science	515	(2)
John Hollins
The race of blacks	517	(1)
Henri Gregoire
Indian languages	517	(2)
Doctor Benjamin S. Barton
Reason and justice in a hurricane	519	(1)
Cesar A. Rodney
The executive office	520	(5)
Destutt de Tracy
No patents on ideas	525	(8)
Isaac McPherson
The natural aristocracy	533	(7)
John Adams
The moral sense	540	(4)
Thomas Law
Slavery and emancipation	544	(3)
Edward Coles
Domestic manufactures---a change of opinion	547	(3)
Benjamin Austin
Your prophecy and mine	550	(2)
John Adams
Agenda of reform for Virginia	552	(9)
Samuel Kercheval
The federal judiciary	561	(3)
Judge Spencer Roane
Epicurus and Jesus	564	(3)
William Short
``a fire-bell in the night''	567	(2)
John Holmes
The university, neology, and materialism	569	(5)
John Adams
The President of the United States (James Monroe), October 24, 1823
An American system---the Monroe Doctrine	574	(3)
Saxons, Americans, and a case of legal fraud	577	(6)
Major John Cartwright
The progress of society	583	(1)
William Ludlow
``All eyes are opened...to the rights of man''	584	(3)
Roger C. Weightman
Further Reading on Jefferson	587