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- Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper (1807) https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_speechs29.html 332 comments
- Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper (1807) http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_speechs29.html 133 comments
- Book/Article Recommendation Request: The Intersection of Law and Politics. https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a4_4s10.html 2 comments law
- "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." - Thomas Jefferson http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendi_speechs8.html 14 comments politics
- Jefferson to Madison: On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch2s23.html 24 comments politics
- Benjamin Franklin on taxing the rich http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s12.html 5 comments politics
- "Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise." -Legendary Socialist THOMAS JEFFERSON http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s32.html 5 comments politics
- "They seem to require less sleep. A black, after hard labour through the day, will be induced by the slightest amusements to sit up till midnight, or later, though knowing he must be out with the first dawn of the morning." -Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s28.html 17 comments politics