The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 17 (eBook)

1 March 1821 to 30 November 1821

Thomas Jefferson (Autor)

J. Jefferson Looney (Herausgeber)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20794-0 (ISBN)

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A definitive scholarly edition of the retirement papers of Thomas JeffersonThe 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, "e;ever acting, with noiseless foot, & unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains."e; 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, "e;to do, not what was to perish with ourselves, but what would remain, be respected and preserved thro' other ages."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.2.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series
• Reihe/Serie: Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Aaron Burr • African Americans • Alabama Department of Archives and History • Albemarle County • Alexander Garrett • algiers • Amendment • American Antiquarian Society • American National Biography • American Philosophical Society • American Revolution • aristocracy • A Summary View of the Rights of British America • Bank of Virginia • Bankruptcy • Benjamin Lincoln • Bernard Peyton • Biographical dictionary • Bourbon Restoration • Bunker Hill Monument • charles sumner • Cohens v. Virginia • Congressional Cemetery • Congress of Troppau • Consideration • continental congress • David Hosack • deed • DeWitt Clinton • dormitory • edict • France • Francis Eppes • Frederick August Mayo • Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington • General Government • George Ticknor • Great Britain • Harvard University • Henry Dearborn • Henry Ward Beecher • His Family • Holy Alliance • invoice • I Wish (manhwa) • James Barron • James Madison • James Maury • James Monroe • James T. Callender • Jean Louis Fernagus De Gelone • Jefferson and slavery • Jefferson on agriculture • Jefferson on the Bible • Jefferson’s books • Jefferson’s correspondence • Jefferson’s health • Jefferson’s writings • John Adams • John C. Calhoun • John Hartwell Cocke • John Quincy Adams • joseph bonaparte • Lucius Junius Brutus • Marie Lafayette • Martin Van Buren • McCulloch v. Maryland • Mergenthaler Linotype Company • Meriwether Lewis • Monticello • Mr. • My Country • National Archives and Records Administration • newspaper • Notes on the State of Virginia • of education • Oliver Hazard Perry • Pamphlet • Panic of 1819 • Patrician (ancient Rome) • Payment • Peyton Randolph • Poplar Forest • President for Life • Primogeniture • Princeton University • Princeton University Press • Provision (contracting) • Publication • Raleigh Tavern • Ralph Waldo Emerson • remittance • repeal • residence • Robert Dinwiddie • Roman cement • S. (Dorst novel) • silas deane • Slavery • Sons (novel) • Sons of the American Revolution • Statute • stephen decatur • Tax • Testimonial • The 19th • The Age of Louis XIV • The Book of Fate • The Papers of James Madison • Thomas Cooper • Thomas Jefferson • Thomas Randolph • Thomas Sully • timothy pickering • Treaty • Treaty of Alliance (1778) • University of Virginia • Virginia • Virginia Company • William Eaton (soldier) • William H. Crawford • William Radford • William Wirt (Attorney General) • Writing • Yale College • Yale University • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20794-1 / 0691207941
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20794-0 / 9780691207940