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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 ... - Página 275
por Thomas Jefferson - 1829
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Bulletin

United States. Office of Education - 1942 - 678 páginas
...iwtition, 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...
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The Gateway to Citizenship

Carl Britt Hyatt - 1956 - 248 páginas
...to all those who desire it." THOMAS JEFFERSON. (In 1787 before the enactment of the Bill of Rights.) "A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled...and what no just government should refuse or rest on inferences." 'JOSEPHUS DANIELS. On the occasion of being presented the Israelite Medal by the North...
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The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America

1984 - 328 páginas
...the American Republic. In a letter from Paris written to James Madison in 1787, Thomas Jefferson said that "a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth." The Helsinki accords are, in effect, a bill of rights for all the people of Europe. The Government...
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Thomas Jefferson: America's Philosopher-King

Max Lerner - 1996 - 162 páginas
...his other objection Jefferson was militant and unreconstructed: "A bill of rights," he wrote Madison, "is what the people are entitled to against every...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences." Many others felt as he did; even John Adams, also in Europe, had written earlier to Jefferson...
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Seasoned Judgments: American Constitution, Rights and History

Leonard W. Levy - 462 páginas
...campaign rhetoric Wilson's justification for the omission of a bill of rights, and Jefferson concluded: "Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."15 Madison, who had long opposed a bill of rights, finally changed his mind — mainly for...
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From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save ...

Robert A. Goldwin - 1997 - 236 páginas
...to the House of Representatives "introducing the great work"; four years after Jefferson had written that "a bill of rights is what the people are entitled...particular, and what no just government should refuse or take on inference"; and four and a half years after George Mason had said he would "sooner chop off...
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Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence

Brennan Center for Justice - 1997 - 348 páginas
...Adams. And, in his Paris letters to Madison, the incomparable Jefferson described a bill of rights as "what the people are entitled to against every government...particular and what no just government should refuse or leave to inference." Some thirty years later, writing to John Adams, Jefferson exulted that our example...
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Reason and Republicanism: Thomas Jefferson's Legacy of Liberty

Gary L. McDowell, L. Sharon Noble, Sharon L. Noble - 1997 - 350 páginas
...Jefferson thought it ill advised not to include a bill of rights. "Let me add," he wrote in December 1787, "that 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 inferences."15 By October 1788, Madison had come...
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The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal ...

Lance Banning - 1995 - 566 páginas
...convention's work, but vigorously objecting to provisions he disliked. "A Bill of Rights," he wrote, "is what the people are entitled to against every...just government should refuse or rest on inference." Jefferson had seen James Wilson's speech and understood that the convention's plan proposed a limited...
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Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville - 1998 - 440 páginas
...reserved to the separate states or the people. The Bill of Rights is, in Jefferson's luminous phrase, 'What the people are entitled to against every government...just government should refuse, or rest on inference.' In short, it enshrines the whole philosophy of liberal democracy. Yet Tocqueville seems unaware of...
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