Translator: A Treatise on Political Economy (LF ed.).Author: Outlines of American Political Economy, in a series of letters (1827).Author: Extract from The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia (Illustrations and Topical index).Author: The Declaration of Independence: A Study on the History of Political Ideas.Translator: A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu’s ’Spirit of Laws’. ![]() Author: BOLL 40: Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence” (1776).Thomas Jefferson boasts about having reduced the size of government and eliminated a number of “vexatious” taxes.Less well known is Thomas Jefferson’s First Draft of the Declaration of Independence in which he denounced the slave trade as an “execrable Commerce” and slavery itself as a “cruel war against nature itself”.Thomas Jefferson tells Congress that since tax revenues are increasing faster than population then taxes on all manner of items can be “dispensed with” (i.e.Thomas Jefferson in a letter to John Taylor condemns the system of banking as “a blot” on the constitution, as corrupt, and that long-term government debt was “swindling” future generations.Thomas Jefferson on the Draft as “the last of all oppressions”.Thomas Jefferson’s fear the American system of government degenerated into a form of “elective despotism”.Thomas Jefferson on how Congress misuses the inter-state commerce and general welfare clauses to promote the centralization of power.Thomas Jefferson’s list of objections to the British Empire in his first draft of the Declaration of Independence.Thomas Jefferson’s preference for “newspapers without government” over “government without newspapers”.Thomas Jefferson on the right to change one’s government.Thomas Jefferson on Taxes and the General Welfare.Thomas Jefferson on the inevitability of revolution in England only after which there will be peace on earth.Thomas Jefferson and Adams reflect on the Revolution and the future of liberty. ![]()
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