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A collection of Thomas Jefferson's writings in his legal commonplace book, a notebook of his thoughts on law. As a law student and young lawyer in the 1760s, Thomas Jefferson began writing abstracts of English common law reports. Even after abandoning his law practice, he continued to rely on his legal commonplace book to document the legal, historical, and philosophical reading that helped shape his new role as a statesman. Indeed, he made entries in the notebook in preparation for his mission to France, as president of the United States, and near the end of his life. This authoritative volume is the first to contain the complete text of Jefferson’s notebook. With more than 900 entries on such thinkers as Beccaria, Montesquieu, and Lord Kames, __Jefferson’s Legal Commonplace Book__ is a fascinating chronicle of the evolution of Jefferson’s searching mind. Jefferson’s abstracts of common law reports, most published here for the first time, indicate his deepening commitment to whig principles and his incisive understanding of the political underpinnings of the law. As his intellectual interests and political aspirations evolved, so too did the content and composition of his notetaki

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Author

Thomas Jefferson (editor); David Thomas Konig (editor); Michael P. Zuckert (editor)

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691187891

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Biography