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4 Apr 2019, 9:05 pm by Raymond J. LaJeunesse, Jr.
Thomas Jefferson famously said that it is “sinful and tyrannical” for government “to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 7:38 am by Hans von Spakovsky
But the first citizenship question appeared on the 1820 census after being recommended by the notoriously conservative President Thomas Jefferson. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
A few, like Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan, do. [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 5:22 am by Lyle Denniston
But an amendment to change the College was last put in the Constitution in 1804, after the nation was nearly torn apart by the election of 1800 that eventually put Thomas Jefferson in the White House. [read post]
20 Mar 2019, 12:00 am by Scott Bomboy
In 1801, President John Adams and a lame-duck Federalist Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1801, which reduced the Court to five Justices in an attempt to limit incoming President Thomas Jefferson’s appointments. [read post]
15 Mar 2019, 10:54 am by Tom Smith
One of the drafters of the US Constitution, Thomas Jefferson, suggested that every generation of Americans should draft its own version to meet the particularities of its time. [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 6:58 am by Dan
…” In response, Madison and Thomas Jefferson, Adams’ Vice President, wrote up resolutions in Kentucky and Virginia. [read post]
22 Dec 2018, 8:00 am by Paul Caron
Thomas Jefferson: -76% (59 v. 241) Arizona Summit: -65% (17 v. 49) John Marshall (Atlanta): -50% (108 v. 216) Florida Coastal: -43.% (60 v. 106) North Carolina Central: -38% (103 v. 166) Southern Illinois: -33% (76 v. 114) Appalachian: -32% (50 v. 73) District of Columbia: -31% (64 v. 93)... [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 7:07 am by Marci Hamilton
They are reminiscent of the Deists prevalent at the time of the framing of the Constitution, including the likes of Thomas Jefferson, who famously cut out the parts of his Bible that he found too fantastical. [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
In highlighting the diverse purposes of constitutional argument, Graber is identifying something real and important, not only in Abraham Lincoln’s and Thomas Jefferson’s constitutional rhetoric, but in constitutional rhetoric more generally. [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 3:15 am by NCC Staff
Thomas Jefferson wanted Adams to write the Declaration of Independence. [read post]
13 Aug 2018, 4:56 am by Benjamin Wittes
It lays out the history of Chief Justice John Marshall’s subpoena of President Thomas Jefferson to testify in the Aaron Burr treason trial and Jefferson’s response to it—which amounted to an agreement to testify but a refusal to travel to do it and consequent insistence on testifying by deposition. [read post]