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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1: 1760 to 1776

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1: 1760 to 1776

Hardcover

Series: Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Book 1

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ISBN10: 069104533X
ISBN13: 9780691045337
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: May 21 1950
Pages: 758
Weight: 2.75
Height: 1.90 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
Among the fresh contributions made by the documents in Volume 1, which covers the years 1760-1776, are the following: new light on the Declaration of Independence, hitherto unpublished material; full assessment of the part played by Jefferson in the drafting of the Virginia Constitution; full presentation of his efforts in 1776 to disestablish the Church of Virginia and to establish religious toleration; complete presentation of bills and statutes drawn by Jefferson in 1776 in the beginning of his great legislative reforms by which he hoped to eradicate every fibre of aristocracy; settlement of the disputed authorship of the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms; first publication of Jefferson's comments on Franklin's Plan of Union, 1775.

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