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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 17 - 1 March 1821 to 30 November 1821 (Hardcover)
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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 17 - 1 March 1821 to 30 November 1821 (Hardcover)
Series: Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series
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A definitive scholarly edition of the retirement papers of Thomas
Jefferson The 612 documents in this volume include Jefferson's
notes on his early career, one of the lengthiest documents of his
retirement. Often misleadingly called his autobiography, the text
describes Jefferson's experience as an American revolutionary, a
legislator shaping and revising Virginia's laws, and a United
States diplomat in France as its own revolution neared. Jefferson
sits for a portrait by Thomas Sully commissioned for West Point. He
takes the unusual step of allowing his recommendation of a book by
John Taylor to be published, insuring a wide circulation of
Jefferson's views on the proper balance between state and federal
powers. In a private letter he asserts that the federal judiciary
is amassing overarching power, "ever acting, with noiseless foot,
& unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding
what it gains." Jefferson receives a description of an African
American commemoration of the nation's 1807 ban on the importation
of slaves. Jefferson advises that the opening of the University of
Virginia is not imminent even as he oversees its construction and
defends the high cost, stating as his goal, "to do, not what was to
perish with ourselves, but what would remain, be respected and
preserved thro' other ages."
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