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    Jefferson’s Proposed Revision of the Virginia Constitution, [May–June 1783]

    From: Jefferson Papers | Main Series | Volume 6 | Jefferson’s Proposed Revision of the Virginia Constitution, [May–June 1783]

    1III. Jefferson’s Draft of a Constitution for Virginia, [May–June 1783] (Jefferson Papers)
    To the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and all others whom it may concern, the Delegates of the said Commonwealth send greeting. It is known to you and to the world that the government of Great Britain, with which the American states were not long since connected, assumed over them an authority which to some of them appeared unwarrantable and oppressive; that they endeavoured to...