On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas ... encouraged Jefferson to accept "the indispensable duty of those who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature ...

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence ... Two years after ratification, the Constitution was amended by adding the Bill of Rights. James Madison, who drafted the Bill of Rights, ...

For years, a rumor has circulated online that former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson said ... one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." Atlas World Press ...

As for unalienable, the early drafts of the Declaration as Thomas Jefferson wrote it ... our understanding of civil rights which comes to fuller flower in the Bill of Rights, some 15 years ...

introduced his fifth bill in the Ohio House to change the structure of the state’s property tax system. Thomas, R-Jefferson, serves as vice chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and ...

liberty and the pursuit of happiness” were the unalienable rights of every human. And the one who owned several hundred over the course of his lifetime. “Thomas Jefferson,” the ambitious ...

The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of ...