 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 sidor
...themselves at once about the constitution. TJ DEAR SIR, TO JAMES MADISON. Paris, September 6, 1789. I sit down to write to you, without knowing by what...subject comes into my head, which I would wish to develope a little more than is practicable in the hurry of the moment of making up general despatches.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 656 sidor
...children, or to some one of them, or to the legatee of the deceased. So they may give it to his creditor. I sit down to write to you, without knowing by what...send my letter. I do it, because a subject comes into rny head, which I would wish to develope a little more than is practicable in the hurry of the moment... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 554 sidor
...themselves at once about the constitution. TJ DEAR SIR, TO JAMES MADISON. Pane, September 6, 1789. I sit down to write to you, without knowing by what occasion 1 shall send my letter. I do it, because a subject comes into my head, which I would wish to develope... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1830 - 538 sidor
...at once about the constitution. TJ LETTER XI. TO JAMES MADISON. Paris, September 6, 1789. DEAR SIR, I sit down to write to you, without knowing by what...subject comes into my head, which I would wish to develope a little more than is practicable in the hurry of the moment of making up general despatches.... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1839 - 384 sidor
...assumed by the former. In a letter to James Madison, dated Paris, September 6, 1789, he says : — " I sit down to write to you without knowing by what...I shall send my letter. I do it because a subject conies into my head which I would wish to develope a little more than is practicable in the hurry of... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Rolls and Library - 1894 - 826 sidor
...Proposes to sail from Havre on October!. -I . '.I pages. •-ililiniliti- i:, 1'iii-i». An essay on the question whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, on the ground that " the earth JKKMCRSON. belongs in usufruct to the living." The national debts and... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 518 sidor
...themselves at once about the constitution. C "7 (TO JAMES MADISON^ PARIS, September 6, 1789. DEAR SIR, — I sit down to write to you without knowing by what...moment of making up general despatches. The question, whether^one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to Kave~beenstarted either on... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 538 sidor
...AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS 1789-1792 WO JAMES MADISON j. MSS. PARIS September 6, 1789. DEAR SIR, — I sit down to write to you without knowing by what...I shall send my letter. I do it because a subject conies into my head which I would wish to develope a little more than is practicable in the hurry of... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 1044 sidor
...reflection "on elementary principles of society," he remarked that he was led to a consideration of the question " Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another," — a question " that seems never to have been started either on this or on our .side of the water."... | |
 | Robert Luce - 1922 - 658 sidor
...consideration that deserves reflection. Writing from Paris to James Madison in September of 1789, he discussed the question whether one generation of men has a right to bind another. By an ingenious train of reasoning, he satisfied himself that every Constitution and every law naturally... | |
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I sit down to write to you without knowing by what occasion I shall send my letter. I do it because a subject comes into my head which I would wish to develope a little more than is practicable in the hurry of the moment of making up general despatches.... 
