Jefferson: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson is among the most important and controversial of American political thinkers. Joyce Appleby and Terence Ball have selected the most important of Jefferson's numerous writings, setting out his views on topics such as revolution, slavery and the role of women. The texts are supported by a concise introduction, suggestions for further reading and short biographies of key figures, all providing invaluable assistance to the student encountering Jefferson's thought for the first time. Cover......Page 1 Half-title......Page 3 Series-title......Page 5 Title......Page 7 Copyright......Page 8 Contents......Page 9 Preface......Page 11 Life and times......Page 15 Jefferson as theorist......Page 24 Chronology......Page 34 Biographical synopses......Page 37 A note on sources......Page 47 Bibliographical note......Page 50 I A Private Man in Public Life......Page 57 I.1 To Giovanni Fabbroni......Page 59 I.2 To James Monroe......Page 61 I.3 To Archibald Stuart......Page 64 I.4 To Maria Cosway......Page 66 I.5 To Angelica Schuyler Church......Page 77 I.6 To Dr.Benjamin Rush......Page 78 I.7 To Samuel Smith......Page 79 I.8 Services to My Country......Page 82 I.9 To Dr. Benjamin Rush......Page 84 I.10 Rules of Etiquette [for President Jefferson’s White House]......Page 86 I.11 To P.-S. DuPont de Nemours......Page 87 I.12 To the Inhabitants of Albemarle County, in Virginia......Page 88 I.13 To Charles Willson Peale......Page 89 I.14 To Dr. Benjamin Rush......Page 90 I.15 To John Adams......Page 92 I.16 To Dr. Walter Jones......Page 94 I.17 To John Adams......Page 98 I.18 [Classification of Books in Jefferson’s Library, 1815]......Page 101 I.19 To John Adams......Page 102 I.20 To John Adams......Page 104 I.21 To John Adams......Page 108 I.22 To John Adams......Page 109 I.23 To Thomas Jefferson Smith......Page 111 I.24 To John Adams......Page 112 I.25 To James Madison......Page 113 II Natural Law, Natural Right, and Revolution......Page 117 II.1 A Summary View of the Rights of British America......Page 120 II.2 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms......Page 136 II.3 To John Randolph......Page 143 II.4 From the Autobiography......Page 146 II.5 A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled [Jefferson’s draft]......Page 152 II.6 The Declaration of Independence [as amended and adopted in Congress], July 4, 1776......Page 158 II.7 To Rev. James Madison......Page 161 II.8 To James Madison......Page 163 II.9 To William Stephens Smith......Page 165 II.10 To David Humphreys......Page 167 II.II From the Autobiography......Page 170 II.12 To William Short......Page 189 II.13 To Dr. Thomas Cooper......Page 192 II.14 To Francis W. Gilmer......Page 198 II.15 To James Madison......Page 201 II.16 To Henry Lee......Page 203 II.17 To Roger C. Weightman......Page 204 III Self-government......Page 206 III.1 To Edward Carrington......Page 208 III.2 To Thomas Paine......Page 210 III.3 To Diodati......Page 212 III.4 Opinion on Residence Bill......Page 215 III.5 Petition on Election of Jurors......Page 220 III.6 To Elbridge Gerry......Page 223 III.7 To Gideon Granger......Page 225 III.8 To Jeremiah Moor......Page 227 III.9 First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801......Page 228 III.10 To Dr. Thomas Cooper......Page 233 III.11 To Dr Joseph Priestley......Page 234 III.12 To John Breckenridge......Page 236 III.13 To DeWitt Clinton......Page 237 III.14 To John Tyler......Page 238 III.15 To Dr. Samuel Brown......Page 240 III.16 To John Adams......Page 241 III.17 To the Marquis de Lafayette......Page 247 III.18 To Baron von Humboldt......Page 248 III.19 To Joseph C. Cabell......Page 251 III.20 To the Marquis de Lafayette......Page 253 III.21 To Joseph C. Cabell......Page 258 III.22 To John Taylor......Page 262 III.23 To Samuel Kercheval......Page 266 III.24 To Isaac H. Tiffany......Page 273 III.25 To Samuel Kercheval......Page 274 III.26 To Baron von Humboldt......Page 276 III.27 To John Adams......Page 278 III.28 To Isaac H. Tiffany......Page 280 III.29 To John Adams......Page 281 III.30 To John Adams......Page 283 III.31 To Edward Livingston......Page 284 IV Moral Sense, Civic Education, and Freedom of the Press......Page 287 IV.1 To Robert Skipwith......Page 289 IV.2 A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge......Page 291 IV.3 To Peter Carr......Page 299 IV.4 To John Banister, Junior......Page 303 IV.5 To George Wythe......Page 305 IV.6 To Peter Carr......Page 308 IV.7 Notes on Virginia: Query XIV......Page 312 IV.8 To Thomas Mann Randolph......Page 316 IV.9 To Dr. Joseph Priestley......Page 319 IV.10 To Dr. Joseph Priestley......Page 321 IV.11 To Dr. Benjamin Rush......Page 322 Syllabus of an estimate of the merit of the doctrines of Jesus, compared with those of others......Page 323 IV.12 To Judge John Tyler......Page 326 IV.13 To Thomas Seymour......Page 328 IV.14 To John Norvell......Page 329 IV.15 To William Short......Page 332 IV.16 To Thomas Jefferson Randolph......Page 333 IV.17 To James Fishback......Page 336 IV.18 To William Duane......Page 338 IV.19 To Thomas Law......Page 341 IV.20 To Dr. Thomas Cooper......Page 345 IV.21 To P.-S. DuPont de Nemours......Page 346 IV.22 To John Adams......Page 350 IV.23 Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia......Page 353 IV.24 To John Brazier......Page 366 IV.25 To William Short......Page 369 Syllabus of the doctrines of Epicurus.......Page 371 IV.26 To —......Page 372 V The Constitutions of Virginia and France......Page 376 V.1 From the Autobiography......Page 377 V.2 Notes on Virginia: Query XIII......Page 380 V.3 To Edmund Pendleton......Page 391 V.4 Proposed Constitution for Virginia......Page 394 V.5 To Rabaut de St. Etienne......Page 405 Proposed Charter for France......Page 406 VI The U. S. Constitution......Page 408 VI.1 From the Autobiography......Page 410 VI.2 To Dr. Richard Price......Page 414 VI.3 To John Adams......Page 415 VI.4 To James Madison......Page 416 VI.5 To Edward Carrington......Page 419 VI.6 To James Madison......Page 421 VI.7 To James Madison......Page 423 VI.8 To John Taylor......Page 425 VI.9 To Dr. Joseph Priestley......Page 427 VI.10 To Wilson C. Nicholas......Page 429 VI.11 To John B. Colvin......Page 431 VI.12 To Judge Spencer Roane......Page 434 VI.13 To William Charles Jarvis......Page 437 VI.14 To Major John Cartwright......Page 438 VII Religious Liberty and Toleration......Page 445 VII.1 A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (1777)......Page 446 The different religions received into that state?......Page 448 VIII.3 To Messrs. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephram Robbins, and Stephen S. Nelson, a Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association, in.........Page 452 VII.4 To Rev. Samuel Miller......Page 453 VII.5 To Mrs. Samuel H. Smith......Page 454 VII.6 To Mathew Carey......Page 456 VII.7 To William Short......Page 457 VII.8 To Dr. Thomas Cooper......Page 461 VIII Political Parties......Page 464 VIII.1 To Francis Hopkinson......Page 466 VIII.2 To James Madison......Page 468 VIII.3 To William Branch Giles......Page 469 VIII.4 To Philip Mazzei......Page 472 VIII.5 To James Sullivan......Page 473 VIII.6 To John Taylor......Page 474 VIII.8 To Joel Barlow......Page 477 VIII.9 To Abigail Adams......Page 479 VIII.10 To Thomas Cooper......Page 480 VIII.11 To Dr. Benjamin Rush......Page 481 VIII.12 To John Melish......Page 486 VIII.13 To John Adams......Page 490 VIII.14 From the Anas......Page 494 VIII.15 To William Johnson......Page 505 VIII.16 To William Johnson......Page 506 VIII.17 To the Marquis de Lafayette......Page 513 VIII.18 To Henry Lee......Page 516 VIII.19 To William Short......Page 517 IX Race and Slavery......Page 521 IX.1 Report of Government for the Western Territory......Page 523 IX.2 To Dr. Richard Price......Page 525 IX.3 A Bill Concerning Slaves......Page 526 IX.4 To Jean Nicholas Démeunier......Page 528 IX.5 To Jean Pierre Brissot de Warville......Page 529 Laws......Page 530 IX.7 Notes on Virginia: Query XVIII......Page 536 IX.8 To Dr. Edward Bancroft......Page 538 IX.9 To Benjamin Banneker......Page 539 IX.10 To the Marquis de Condorcet......Page 540 IX.11 To St. George Tucker......Page 541 IX.12 To the Governor of Virginia (James Monroe)......Page 543 IX.13 To Christopher Ellery......Page 546 IX.15 To Henri Grégoire......Page 547 IX.16 To Edward Coles......Page 548 IX.17 To Dr. Thomas Humphreys......Page 551 IX.18 To John Holmes......Page 552 IX.19 To James Heaton......Page 553 X Native Americans......Page 555 X.1 Notes on Virginia: Query VI......Page 556 X.2 Notes on Virginia: Query XI......Page 564 X.3 To General Chastellux......Page 571 X.4 To Charles Carroll......Page 574 X.5 To Brother Handsome Lake......Page 575 X.6 To Benjamin Hawkins......Page 577 X.7 To Governor Wm. Henry Harrison......Page 579 X.8 To the Brothers of the Choctaw Nation......Page 583 X.9 Second Inaugural Address......Page 586 X.10 To the Secretary of War (Henry Dearborn)......Page 591 X.11 To John Adams......Page 592 XI Women (not) in Politics......Page 596 XI.1 To Anne Willing Bingham......Page 597 XI.2 To Anne Willing Bingham......Page 599 XI.3 To General George Washington......Page 600 XI.5 To Nathaniel Burwell......Page 601 XII Law of Nations......Page 604 XII.1 To John Jay......Page 605 XII.2 To Count Hogendorp......Page 607 XII.3 Opinion on the French Treaties......Page 609 XII.4 To Benjamin Austin......Page 621 XIII Innovation and Progress......Page 626 XIII.1 To Dr. Joseph Priestley......Page 627 XIII.2 To John Adams......Page 628 XIII.3 To Isaac McPherson......Page 631 XIII.4 To John Waldo......Page 638 XIII.5 To Joseph Milligan......Page 644 XIII.6 To William Ludlow......Page 646 XIV Relations between Generations......Page 648 XIV.1 To James Madison......Page 649 XIV.2 To John Wayles Eppes......Page 654 Appendices......Page 661 Appendix A: James Madison to Jefferson......Page 662 Appendix B: John Adams to Timothy Pickering......Page 665 Appendix C: Seneca Falls Declaration......Page 667 Appendix D: The Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln)......Page 669 Index......Page 671 "Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) is among the most important and controversial of American political thinkers; his influence (libertarian, democratic, participatory, and agrarian-republican) is still felt today. A prolific writer, Jefferson left 18,000 letters, Notes on the State of Virginia, an Autobiography, and numerous other papers. Joyce Appleby and Terence Ball have selected the most important of these for presentation in the Cambridge Texts series: Jefferson's views on topics such as revolution, self-government, the role of women, and African-Americans and Native Americans emerge to give a fascinating insight into a man who owned slaves, yet advocated the abolition of slavery. The texts are supported by a concise introduction, suggestions for further reading and short biographies of key figures, all providing invaluable assistance to the student encountering the breadth and richness of Jefferson's thought for the first time."--Jacket