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Marie Jacinthe de Botidoux to Martha Jefferson (Randolph), 4 Nov. 1789

Mercredi 4 Novembre 1789 enfin Ma Chere je vais aujourd’hui Commencer Mon journal, je n’ai pas eu Le Courage de L’entreprendre plutot, ainsi tu peux t’attendre que Cette Lettre sera 4 fois plus mal ecrite que Les autres puisque je ne pourrai pas me ressouvenir de tout en ordre pour Commencer par...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 25 Dec. 1820 [Quote]

if there be anything amiss therefore in the present state of our affairs, as the formidable deficit lately unfolded to us indicates, I ascribe it to the inattention of Congress to it’s duties, to their unwise dissipation & waste of the public contributions. they seemed, some little while ago...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 9 Mar. 1821 [Quote]

The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. that body, like Gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, & unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulphing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them. the recent...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824 [Quote]

the constitutions of most of our states assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, both fact...

Dabney Carr Terrell to Nicholas P. Trist, 31 May 1825

Had I not much better reasons for my long silence, I might, my dear Trist, sans reproche, place it to the score of reciprocity. My time, for the last five or six weeks has been very fully at least, if not always very usefully employed. About a month ago, and just at the close of a seven weeks’...