MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 108:18558); entirely in TJ’s hand; added, along with Notes on Senate Debates at 19 Mch., in a minuscule hand at bottom of sheet following Notes on a Conversation with Benjamin Rush, 1 Feb. 1800.

Every legal body: Senator Uriah Tracy of Connecticut commented on 5 Mch. in debate on the Aurora that every public body of necessity had a right to “the principle of self-preservation” (Annals description begins Annals of the Congress of the United States: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States… Compiled from Authentic Materials, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1834–56, 42 vols. All editions are undependable and pagination varies from one printing to another. The first two volumes of the set cited here have “Compiled … by Joseph Gales, Senior” on the title page and bear the caption “Gales & Seatons History” on verso and “of Debates in Congress” on recto pages. The remaining volumes bear the caption “History of Congress” on both recto and verso pages. Those using the first two volumes with the latter caption will need to employ the date of the debate or the indexes of debates and speakers. description ends , 10:87). See also TJ’s refutation of the notion of “self-preservation” in PW description begins Wilbur S. Howell, ed., Jefferson’s Parliamentary Writings, Princeton, 1988, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 360–1.