Wednesday, June 4, 2014

TJ Letters in Canto 31

Letter to George Washington

To make our states one as to all foreign concerns, preserve them several as to all merely domestic, to give to the federal head some peaceable mode of enforcing their just authority, to organize that head into Legislative, Executive and Judiciary departments are great desiderata in our federal constitution.

Thomas Jefferson
Paris
August 14, 1787

 to Dr. Styles  July 17, 1785

 LETTER CCLXXVII.—TO THOMAS PAINE, March 18, 1801


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