Thomas Jefferson: An Address Before the Iroquois Club, April 13th, 1901 - Couverture rigide

Gregory, Stephen Strong 1849-1920

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1373374861 ISBN 13 : 9781373374868

Editeur : Wentworth Press, 2016

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But if it be true that John Marshall was born to be the Chief Justice of any nation of which he was a citizen, Thomas Jefferson was not less inevitably predestined to be the great lawgiver and legislator of any land which claimed him as her son. His was one of those rare minds that can not only evolve and proclaim in perspicuous, attractive and convincing form the general and fundamental principles of free government, but can also elaborate these ideas in the concrete form of positive legislation. He was the great apostle of American liberty and of popular government. At the age of 33 he penned the immortal Declaration; and there laid down the principles of government which always controlled his public conduct for unlike some modern statesmen he did not avow generous and benevolent sentiments only to ruthlessly disregard them in official conduct. At the age of 26 he introduced into the House of Burgesses of Virginia, a bill giving slave owners a right, not before possessed, to manumit their slaves though then defeated it was passed in 1782. In 1776 he brought in a bill to abolish all entails in Virginia, which was carried. As one of the revisers of the statutes of that State, he secured, in 1777, the abolition of all rights of primogeniture; thus, by these two measures, abolishing those unjust and distinctive features of the aristocratical and feudal system of land tenures which had obtained in England. He labored manfully for separation of church and State and the complete establishment of religious freedom, and drew the bill upon that subject, which, with minor changes, was finally adopted in 1786.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wentworth Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1373374861
• ISBN 13: 9781373374868
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 32
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