Thomas Jefferson actually said...

I can not, then, but earnestly recommend to your early consideration the expediency of so modifying our militia system.

The burthen of quarantines is felt at home as well as abroad; their efficacy merits examination.

A state of our progress in exploring the principal rivers of that country, and of the information respecting them hitherto obtained, will be...

Although the health laws of the States should be found to need no present revisal by Congress, yet commerce claims that their attention be e...