...different communities applied liberal principles in different ways. As Jefferson explains, however, "a bill of rights is what the people are entitled...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences"24 — whether federal or state. In any event, after the addition of the Fourteenth Amendment...

...understandable given his long involvement in its evolution. He had written to Madison on December 20, 1787, "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled...every government on earth, general or particular.'" 1 While US ambassador to France, Jefferson continued to remain active in the debate, often using Madison...

...other insanities, are incapable of self-government. To Marquis de LaFayette, Monticello, May 14, 1817 A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to...every government on earth, general or particular, & what no just government should refuse or rest on inferences. To James Madison, Paris, December 20,...

...Jefferson had criticized the Constitution's lack of such amendments the previous December, when he wrote "that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, generally or particular, & what no government should refuse or rest on inference."46 Madison recognized...

...Independence and future third president, wrote a letter to his friend James Madison. In it, he said: "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth." It was Madison, in fact, who ended up drafting most of the Bill of Rights. He originally wrote seventeen...

...minorities, the claim to high-level protection is much less compelling. Judicial Review and Constitutionalism A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth. (Thomas Jefferson, 1 787):" Where once politicians, judges and academics alike contested at length...

...reservations, insisting that a bill of rights be included. "A bill of rights," he wrote Madison in 1787, "is what the people are entitled to against every...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences." Congress used many of Jefferson's ideas in the final version of the Bill of Rights. EnumeraxeD...

...rights of citizens. Indeed, Jefferson articulated the sentiments of most Americans when he averred that "a bill of rights is what the people are entitled...government on earth, general or particular, and what no government should refuse, or rest on inference." At the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Patrick Henry,...

...specifically granted to the government would be necessarily reserved by the people. As Jefferson put it, "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled...government on earth, general or particular, and what no government should refuse, or rest on inference."51 Although he wrote Jefferson often, Madison did not...

...A BILL OF RIGHTS." Thomas Jefferson saw the issue differently. Writing from France, he told Madison that "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth." In the end Madison realized that more Americans would support their new government if a bill of rights...