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Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Volume 19 The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 19: January 1791 to March 1791 by Thomas Jefferson (editor); Julian P. Boyd (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Volume 19, covering the final critical weeks of the First Congress, reveals Washington and Jefferson in the closest and most confidential relationship that existed at any time during their official careers. It opens with the proclamation announcing the exact location of the Federal District, an unexplained choice made in the utmost secrecy by the President in consultation with the Secretary of State some weeks before Washington toured the upper Potomac in an ostensible journey to inspect rival sites and to encourage competition for the location of the national capital. It includes the politically related question of the chartering of the Bank of the United States, on which Jefferson delivered his famous opinion challenging its constitutionality. But the conflict with Hamilton over the Bank, important as it was, did not bring the two men on the public stage as contestants. Instead, the first focusing of public attention on the breach in the administration occurred with the publication of Jefferson's report on the whale and cod fisheries. This widely disseminated report is here presented in a context showing that, after Hamilton declined to cooperate in reciprocating the favors Franc

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Author

Thomas Jefferson (editor); Julian P. Boyd (editor)

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

1974

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691230740

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Political Science