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The Jeffersonian cyclopedia;

a comprehensive collection of the views of Thomas Jefferson classified and arranged in alphabetical order under nine thousand titles relating to government, politics, law, education, political economy, finance, science, art, literature, religious freedom, morals, etc.;
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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1639. CONSTITUTION (The Federal), Acceptance of.—[further continued].

I sincerely rejoice at the
acceptance of our new Constitution by nine
States. It is a good canvas, on which some
strokes only want retouching. What these
are, I think are sufficiently manifested by
the general voice from north to south, which
calls for a bill of rights. It seems pretty
generally understood, that this should go to
juries, habeas corpus, standing armies, print
ing, religion and monopolies.—
To Jame Madison. Washington ed. ii, 445. Ford ed., v, 45.
(P. July. 1788)