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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.;
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
  
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PREFACE
  
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  
CHRONOLOGY OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
  
LIST OF PATRONS
  
THE JEFFERSON CYCLOPEDIA
  
PLAN OF THE WORK AND EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATIONS

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TOPICAL INDEX WITH CROSS-REFERENCES
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4507. LAW, Intention of.—

Whenever
the words of a law will bear two meanings,
one of which will give effect to the law, and
the other will defeat it, the former must be
supposed to have been intended by the Legislature,
because they could not intend that
meaning, which would defeat their intention,
in passing that law; and in a statute, as in a
will, the intention of the party is to be sought
after.—
To Albert Gallatin. Washington ed. v, 328.
(M. July. 1808)

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