1Editorial Note: The Earth Belongs in Usufruct to the Living (Jefferson Papers)
Sometime during the first week in September, Jefferson suffered an incapacitating illness of six...
2I. Proposition Submitted by Richard Gem, [ca. 1–6 September 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
That one generation of men in civil society have no right to make acts to bind another, is a...
3II. Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 6 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I sit down to write to you without knowing by what occasion I shall send my letter. I do it...
4III. Thomas Jefferson to Richard Gem, [9 September 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
The hurry in which I wrote my letter to Mr. Madison, which is in your hands, occasioned an...