Introduced by Tom Wicker
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Thomas Jefferson defined, at the moment of our nation’s birth, the issues that still direct our political life. Displaying his extraordinary variety of interests and powerful and precise style, Jefferson’s writings are an invaluable and incisive record of the landscape, inhabitants, life, and daily customs of America in the Revolutionary and early national eras, as well as a testimony to the brilliance of one of the most influential and controversial figures in our nation’s history.

Tom Wicker is a former political reporter and columnist for The New York Times and the author of several books, among them the Edgar Award–winning A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt (1975) and Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy (2006).

Public Papers

Resolutions of Congress on Lord North's Conciliatory Proposal (1775)
Draft Constitution for Virginia (1776)
Revisal of the Laws: Drafts of Legislation
– A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (1777, 1779)
– A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments (1778, 1779)
– A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge (1778)
– A Bill Declaring Who Shall Be Deemed Citizens of this Commonwealth (1779)
Report on Government for Western Territory (1784)
Observations on the Whale-Fishery (1788)
Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures (1790)
Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (1791)
Opinion on the French Treaties (1793)
Report on the Privileges and Restrictions on the Commerce of the United States in Foreign Countries (1793)
Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions (1798)
Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia (1818)
Memorial on the Book Duty (1821)
From the Minutes of the Board of Visitors, University of Virginia (1822-1825)
Draft Declaration and Protest of the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the Principles of the Constitution of the United States of America, and on the Violations of them (1825)

Addresses, Messages, and Replies

Response to the Citizens of Albemarle, February 12, 1790
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801
To Elias Shipman and Others, a Committee of the Merchants of New Haven, July 12, 1801
First Annual Message, December 8, 1801
To Messrs. Nehemiah Dodge and Others, a Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association, in the State of Connecticut, January 1, 1802
Third Inaugural Address, October 17, 1803
Second Inaugural Address, March 1805
Sixth Annual Message, December 2, 1806
Special Message on the Burr Conspiracy, January 22, 1807
Special Message on Gun-Boats, February 10, 1807
Eighth Annual Message, November 8, 1808
To the Inhabitants of Albemarle County, in Virginia, April 3, 1809
Indian Addresses, 1781-1806

Miscellany

Reply to the Representations of Affairs in America by British Newpapers (1784)
Answers and Observations for Démeunier's article on the United States in the Encyclopédie Methodique
Thoughts on English Prosody (1786)
Travel Journals
The Anas (1791-1806)—Selections
Notes on Professor Ebeling's Letter of July 30, 1795
A Memorandum (Service to my Country) c. 1800
A Memorandum (Rules of Etiquette) c. November, 1803
Epitaph (1826)

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