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Thomas Jefferson: “He has therefore been instructed to urge this subject anew, to bring it more fully to the bar of reason, and to insist…”

On the recordJanuary 16, 1806
He has therefore been instructed to urge this subject anew, to bring it more fully to the bar of reason, and to insist on rights too evident and too important to be surrendered.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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