1I. First Draft by Jefferson, [before June 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
> certainly secured by abolishing an office which all experience hath shewn to be inveterately...
2II. Second Draft by Jefferson, [before 13 June 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
...punishments in other cases are hereby abolished: nor shall they have power to......abolish...
3III. Third Draft by Jefferson, [before June 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
...liberty may be more certainly secured by abolishing an office which all experience hath shewn...
4Notes of Proceedings in the Continental Congress, 7 June–1 August 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
...the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’...
5III. Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence, 11 June–4 July 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
...the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 13 August 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
...not the better for what we have hitherto abolished of the feudal system? Has not every...
7Memorandum Books, 1777 (Jefferson Papers)
.... 1777, one year after passage of his own bill abolishing entails (
82. Jefferson’s Notes of English Statutes, 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
...belong to L. of judicial proceedings. but may be abolished.
9Notes concerning the Right of Removal from Office, [1780] (Jefferson Papers)
...and after the Boards of War and Trade were abolished in June 1780. TJ became familiar with the...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 31 May 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
.... The period too which will intervene between abolishing an old and establishing a new system...