"Freely ye have received, freely give." -Matthew 10:8
Two documents are featured below, both written in the summer of 1774: Draft of a Declaration of Rights Prepared for the Virginia Convention of August 1774, [ca. 26 July 1774] This declaration of rights for the colony of Virginia is aggressive and more assertive that former declarations. This is attributed without disputation to TJ as …
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To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McCaul, 8 July 1772 Reference to an economic collapse not unlike the housing lending crisis that happened in 2008-2011, where prior to this bills of credit were being issued recklessly. How history does repeat itself, and much more frequently than we care to admit. At least once in a generation, …
“Dreading the Evils which threaten the Ruin of ourselves and our Posterity, by reducing us from a free and happy People to a wretched and miserable State of Slavery;”