The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1: 1760 to 1776

By Thomas Jefferson

A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson

Among the fresh contributions made by the documents in Volume 1, which covers the years 1760-1776, are the following: new light on the Declaration of Independence, hitherto unpublished material; full assessment of the part played by Jefferson in the drafting of the Virginia Constitution; full presentation of his efforts in 1776 to disestablish the Church of Virginia and to establish religious toleration; complete presentation of bills and statutes drawn by Jefferson in 1776 in the beginning of his great legislative reforms by which he hoped to "eradicate every fibre of aristocracy"; settlement of the disputed authorship of the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms; and first publication of Jefferson's comments on Franklin's Plan of Union, 1775.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069104533X
• ISBN13: 9780691045337
• Release Date: May 1950
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 758 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"