| | 1 | Author: | Jefferson
Thomas
1743-1826 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia  | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Sir—In response to your letter, I have to advise you that the text of the Declaration
of Independence (the original MS.) as signed by the delegates, reads, at the point
of your inquiry—“unalienable rights”, while the text of Jefferson's MS. draft, as amended
in committee by Franklin and Adams, reads “inalienable rights”. The latter is the paper
printed in Ford's edition of Jefferson's Writings, in fac simile. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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