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13 Jul 2023, 3:43 am by SHG
The 155-page opinion, which could hinder the government’s efforts to counter false and misleading online speech about issues like election interference and vaccine safety, is laced with lofty references to George Orwell and quotations from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, making it more reminiscent of a civics essay than a federal judicial opinion. [read post]
13 Jul 2023, 3:31 am by Bethany Berger
Influential founders, they show, like George Washington, Ben Franklin, James Madison, James Monroe, and Thomas Jefferson, would all have been familiar with this diplomatic constitution from their own experiences at negotiations with tribal nations. [read post]
11 Jul 2023, 10:51 am by Mark Burridge
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson suffered from severe headaches that many historians think were likely migraine episodes – he even dealt with one right before writing the Declaration of Independence! [read post]
11 Jul 2023, 4:19 am by SHG
If the view that diversity is malarkey crosses the line, what of the view that white people should be castrated or Asians should be denied entry into Harvard or Thomas Jefferson High? [read post]
10 Jul 2023, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Late in life, Rush convinced Jefferson and Adams to reconcile and to begin to correspond with one another again. [read post]
9 Jul 2023, 5:54 am
Even before the decision, [Umaretiya] had seen anxious classmates at his selective high school, Thomas Jefferson High School, in Alexandria, Va., making up stories about facing racial injustice.What's the difference between framing your life story in terms of victimhood and making up stories? [read post]
7 Jul 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
  There a new National Constitution Center podcast: “In a special Independence Day episode, scholars Akhil Amar of Yale Law School and Peter Onuf of the University of Virginia join host Jeffrey Rosen for a discussion on the historical legacy of founding father Thomas Jefferson. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
One of only ten recipes surviving in Thomas Jefferson’s hand, the recipe for ice cream most likely dates to his time in France. [read post]
1 Jul 2023, 3:28 pm by Eugene Volokh
Around the same time, Thomas Jefferson used the Virginia provision as a model for expressing these same ideas in the Declaration of Independence. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 12:59 pm
"Jefferson: "You should try keeping Abagail in order. [read post]
27 Jun 2023, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
” Jay also sent a letter with his misgivings to Thomas Jefferson on October 27, 1786, noting that “The inefficacy of our Government becomes daily more and more apparent. [read post]
19 Jun 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
With this definition before us, I’ll consider the two claims in turn.Defending MadisonAs is well known, Madison’s Virginia Resolution, along with the Kentucky Resolution ghost-written by Thomas Jefferson, became known as “the principles of ‘98” and were expressly relied upon by nullifiers and secessionists, and even by states’-rights advocates long after the Civil War. [read post]