Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia – Query XIV
The administration of justice and description of the laws? . The state is divided into counties. In every county are appointed magistrates, called justices of the peace, usually from eight to thirty or forty in number, in proportion to the size of the county, of the most discreet and honest inhabitants. They are nominated by […]
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia – Query 18
It is difficult to determine on the standard by which the manners of a nation may be tried, whether catholic, or particular. It is more difficult for a native to bring to that standard the manners of his own nation, familiarized to him by habit. There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners […]
Rousseau’s 2nd Discourse
He returns to his equals.
Rousseau’s 1st Discourse
Satyr, you do not know it.
Northwest Ordinance
An Ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio. Section 1. Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, That the said territory, for the purposes of temporary government, be one district, subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in […]
Madison’s Memorial and Remonstrance.
To the Honorable the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia A Memorial and Remonstrance . We the subscribers, citizens of the said Commonwealth, having taken into serious consideration, a Bill printed by order of the last Session of General Assembly, entitled “A Bill establishing a provision for Teachers of the Christian Religion,” and conceiving […]
Lee Resolution
Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. . That it is expedient forthwith to take […]
Kant The Metaphysics of Morals
Table of Contents Preface First Section: Transition from the Ordinary Rational Knowledge of Morality to the Philosophical Second Section: Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to a Metaphysics of Morals Third Section: Final Step from a Metaphysics of Morals to a Critique of Pure Practical Reason
John Adams 1819 Letter to Robert Evans
To Robert Evans 8 June, 1819 . I respect the sentiments and motives, which have prompted you to engage in your present occupation, so much, that I feel an esteem and affection for your person, as I do a veneration for your assumed signature of Benjamin Rush. The turpitude, the inhumanity, the cruelty, and the […]
Jefferson’s Rough Draft of Declaration of Independence
A Declaration of the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress assembled. . When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto remained, & to assume among the powers of the earth the equal & independant station to […]