#thomas-jefferson — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/people/70998/ Trump administration will join a prayer gathering criticized for promoting Christian nationalism #AnnieLaurieGaylor #BrianKaylor #ChrisTomlin #DanPatrick #DonaldTrump #FranklinGraham #JamesMadison #JaredHuffman #JoeBiden #MarcoRubio #MeirSoloveichik #MikeJohnson #PaulaWhiteCain #PeteHegseth #PopeLeoXIV #religion #RobertBarron #RobertJeffress #SamuelRodriguez #ThomasJefferson #TimothyDolan #USNews #WashingtonNews

https://www.europesays.com/ie/474048/ All About Photo Awards 2026 Winners: The Best In Contemporary Photography #AllAboutPhotoAwards #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #BestPhotography #Cuba #Design #Éire #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #PhotoContests #SteveMcCurry #ThomasJefferson

Did the founders create a Christian nation? No, but religion did shape their thinking https://www.byteseu.com/1987021/ #BenjaminFranklin #DonaldTrump #GeorgeWashington #JohnAdams #JohnFea #JohnJay #MarkDavidHall #PatrickHenry #PeteHegseth #Politics #Religion #SamuelAdams #ThomasJefferson #USNews #WashingtonNews

https://www.europesays.com/people/49340/ U.S. will issue commemorative passports with Trump’s picture for America’s 250th birthday #250thBirthday #addition #america #building #CommemorativePassport #CommemorativeUSPassport #document #DonaldTrump #liberty #picture #President #signature #TheodoreRoosevelt #ThomasJefferson #Trump #washington

https://www.europesays.com/people/48854/ Trump, King Charles praise U.S.-British alliance at state dinner #DonaldTrump #MelaniaTrump #ThomasJefferson #TopStories #Trump #US

https://www.europesays.com/at/129770/ Donald Trump: US-Regierung plant Reisepässe mit Abbildung von Donald Trump #DonaldTrump #GeorgeWashington #Nachrichten #News #Politik #Schlagzeilen #TheodoreRoosevelt #ThomasJefferson #USRegierung #USA #Welt #World #WorldNews

“Under Absolute Despotism” 📜 Declaration of Independence (1776)

https://marekbennett.com/2026/04/27/under-absolute-despotism-%f0%9f%93%9c-declaration-of-independence-1776/

“Under Absolute Despotism” 📜 Declaration of Independence (1776)

https://marekbennett.com/2026/04/27/under-absolute-despotism-%f0%9f%93%9c-declaration-of-independence-1776/

“Under Absolute Despotism” 📜 Declaration of Independence (1776)

https://marekbennett.com/2026/04/27/under-absolute-despotism-%f0%9f%93%9c-declaration-of-independence-1776/

“Under Absolute Despotism” 📜 Declaration of Independence (1776)

https://marekbennett.com/2026/04/27/under-absolute-despotism-%f0%9f%93%9c-declaration-of-independence-1776/

“Under Absolute Despotism” 📜 Declaration of Independence (1776)

https://marekbennett.com/2026/04/27/under-absolute-despotism-%f0%9f%93%9c-declaration-of-independence-1776/

https://www.europesays.com/people/34208/ SCOTUS vs POTUS: Who really runs America? A throwback to the (in)famous tug-of-wars #court #POTUS #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #RogerBTaney #roosevelt #rumsfeld #SamuelWorcester #ThomasJefferson #truman #WarrenEBurger #WilliamMarbury

“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”*…

Following the often heated debate between Federalists and their opponents that led to the the ratification and adoption of the U.S. Constitution, the Anti-Federalists were still unsatisfied. Then-Representative James Madison, who studied the deficiencies of the Constitution pointed out by Anti-Federalists, collected proposals (16 in all), and then crafted a series of 12 proposed corrective amendments. Congress approved the twelve articles of amendment on September 25, 1789, and submitted them to the states for ratification. 10 were ultimately ratified– the first 10 amendments to our Constitution… or as we know them, The Bill of Rights.

In an excerpt from his book, Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right, Ray Raphael elaborates…

The Constitution of the United States, drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788, did not follow the precedent set by these state constitutions. Despite spending almost four months drafting their new plan, the framers did not include within it a thoughtful listing of rights but only a scattering of guarantees. On September 12, just five days before the end of the Convention, George Mason finally suggested that delegates add a “Bill of Rights” similar to the state declarations of rights, but his motion failed to garner the support of a single state delegation.

Although state conventions ratified the Constitution, several included a caveat: the new plan should be amended as soon as possible. In fact, they proposed scores of amendments, some resembling provisions of what we now know as the Bill of Rights, but many others altering or even deleting structural features of the Constitution. New York’s convention coupled its list of proposed amendments with a demand for a second federal convention to consider these various proposals. The profusion of proposed amendments, plus the prospect of a second convention, frightened supporters of the Constitution, who feared that a new convention, if it met, would revise the fledgling Constitution before it could be put into effect and gut some of its major provisions.

Most leading Federalists hunkered down. In arguing against a second federal convention, they insisted that a bill of rights was not necessary and could even jeopardize rights that were not included. The job of the Constitution, they said, was to state what government could do, not what it couldn’t do. Rights already were secured because the government possessed no power that allowed it to impinge upon them. In fact, any catalog of specified rights would imply that rights were limited to those in the catalog, and not others.

James Madison and George Washington agreed with this argument, but they also took an accurate measure of people’s displeasure. It was strong and it was widespread. Rather than fight a rearguard action against the wave of discontent, they preferred to channel and control it. Article V of the Constitution stipulated that either Congress or state conventions might propose amendments. If Congress acted first, Madison and Washington reasoned, it could take charge of the issue and protect the substantive features of the new plan–congressional taxation, for instance–while giving ground elsewhere. Madison, meanwhile, pledged to his Virginia constituents that he would work to add a bill of rights if they elected him to represent them in Congress.

Once elected, in the First Federal Congress, Madison whittled down the large list of amendments suggested by the states’ ratifying conventions. With President Washington’s blessing, he proposed nineteen that did not endanger key constitutional components. After considerable debate and some revision, Congress pared Madison’s list down to twelve amendments, which it sent to the states for approval. Ten of these, which we call today the Bill of Rights, were ratified by three-quarters of the states, as required by the new Constitution. The genesis of the Bill of Rights, like the origins of the Constitution, was political as well as theoretical.

The short-term effect of the framing and ratification of the Bill of Rights was to put a Federalist stamp on the amendments and to doom the attempts by the Constitution’s opponents to modify the substantive or structural features of the new plan. The long-term effect was to reinforce America’s culture of rights and to infuse specific rights into American jurisprudence. After more than two centuries, the Bill of Rights, which had been so casually dismissed by the framers, figures so prominently in our minds that it often eclipses the Constitution itself. In an era when the word “government” has a bad name, the ten amendments that circumscribe the federal government’s authority over individuals are often viewed more favorably than the Constitution the framers created in 1787…

The backstory of the Bill of Rights, via the always-illuminating Delanceyplace.com

For more on the process that yielded them, and the texts of all 16 proposed amendments, see here.

* Thomas Jefferson, a critic of Federalists, in a 1787 letter to James Madison (who had originally been opposed to the idea of a “bill of rights,” both because he believed that the Constitution as written did not grant the federal government the power to take away people’s rights, and because he [and some other Framers] believed that we have natural rights too numerous to list– and that anything not explicitly included in a Bill of Rights would be unprotected.)

###

As we ponder precedent, we might recall that it was on this date in 1930 that a BBC newsreader had nothing to communicate. His entire script for the 8:45 pm news bulletin was: “There is no news”… after which piano music was played for the rest of the 15-minute segment. The wireless service then returned to broadcasting from the Queen’s Hall in London, where the Wagner opera Parsifal was being performed.

“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”*…

Following the often heated debate between Federalists and their opponents that led to the the ratification and adoption of the U.S. Constitution, the Anti-Federalists were still unsatisfied. Then-Representative James Madison, who studied the deficiencies of the Constitution pointed out by Anti-Federalists, collected proposals (16 in all), and then crafted a series of 12 proposed corrective amendments. Congress approved the twelve articles of amendment on September 25, 1789, and submitted them to the states for ratification. 10 were ultimately ratified– the first 10 amendments to our Constitution… or as we know them, The Bill of Rights.

In an excerpt from his book, Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right, Ray Raphael elaborates…

The Constitution of the United States, drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788, did not follow the precedent set by these state constitutions. Despite spending almost four months drafting their new plan, the framers did not include within it a thoughtful listing of rights but only a scattering of guarantees. On September 12, just five days before the end of the Convention, George Mason finally suggested that delegates add a “Bill of Rights” similar to the state declarations of rights, but his motion failed to garner the support of a single state delegation.

Although state conventions ratified the Constitution, several included a caveat: the new plan should be amended as soon as possible. In fact, they proposed scores of amendments, some resembling provisions of what we now know as the Bill of Rights, but many others altering or even deleting structural features of the Constitution. New York’s convention coupled its list of proposed amendments with a demand for a second federal convention to consider these various proposals. The profusion of proposed amendments, plus the prospect of a second convention, frightened supporters of the Constitution, who feared that a new convention, if it met, would revise the fledgling Constitution before it could be put into effect and gut some of its major provisions.

Most leading Federalists hunkered down. In arguing against a second federal convention, they insisted that a bill of rights was not necessary and could even jeopardize rights that were not included. The job of the Constitution, they said, was to state what government could do, not what it couldn’t do. Rights already were secured because the government possessed no power that allowed it to impinge upon them. In fact, any catalog of specified rights would imply that rights were limited to those in the catalog, and not others.

James Madison and George Washington agreed with this argument, but they also took an accurate measure of people’s displeasure. It was strong and it was widespread. Rather than fight a rearguard action against the wave of discontent, they preferred to channel and control it. Article V of the Constitution stipulated that either Congress or state conventions might propose amendments. If Congress acted first, Madison and Washington reasoned, it could take charge of the issue and protect the substantive features of the new plan–congressional taxation, for instance–while giving ground elsewhere. Madison, meanwhile, pledged to his Virginia constituents that he would work to add a bill of rights if they elected him to represent them in Congress.

Once elected, in the First Federal Congress, Madison whittled down the large list of amendments suggested by the states’ ratifying conventions. With President Washington’s blessing, he proposed nineteen that did not endanger key constitutional components. After considerable debate and some revision, Congress pared Madison’s list down to twelve amendments, which it sent to the states for approval. Ten of these, which we call today the Bill of Rights, were ratified by three-quarters of the states, as required by the new Constitution. The genesis of the Bill of Rights, like the origins of the Constitution, was political as well as theoretical.

The short-term effect of the framing and ratification of the Bill of Rights was to put a Federalist stamp on the amendments and to doom the attempts by the Constitution’s opponents to modify the substantive or structural features of the new plan. The long-term effect was to reinforce America’s culture of rights and to infuse specific rights into American jurisprudence. After more than two centuries, the Bill of Rights, which had been so casually dismissed by the framers, figures so prominently in our minds that it often eclipses the Constitution itself. In an era when the word “government” has a bad name, the ten amendments that circumscribe the federal government’s authority over individuals are often viewed more favorably than the Constitution the framers created in 1787…

The backstory of the Bill of Rights, via the always-illuminating Delanceyplace.com

For more on the process that yielded them, and the texts of all 16 proposed amendments, see here.

* Thomas Jefferson, a critic of Federalists, in a 1787 letter to James Madison (who had originally been opposed to the idea of a “bill of rights,” both because he believed that the Constitution as written did not grant the federal government the power to take away people’s rights, and because he [and some other Framers] believed that we have natural rights too numerous to list– and that anything not explicitly included in a Bill of Rights would be unprotected.)

###

As we ponder precedent, we might recall that it was on this date in 1930 that a BBC newsreader had nothing to communicate. His entire script for the 8:45 pm news bulletin was: “There is no news”… after which piano music was played for the rest of the 15-minute segment. The wireless service then returned to broadcasting from the Queen’s Hall in London, where the Wagner opera Parsifal was being performed.

“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”*…

Following the often heated debate between Federalists and their opponents that led to the the ratification and adoption of the U.S. Constitution, the Anti-Federalists were still unsatisfied. Then-Representative James Madison, who studied the deficiencies of the Constitution pointed out by Anti-Federalists, collected proposals (16 in all), and then crafted a series of 12 proposed corrective amendments. Congress approved the twelve articles of amendment on September 25, 1789, and submitted them to the states for ratification. 10 were ultimately ratified– the first 10 amendments to our Constitution… or as we know them, The Bill of Rights.

In an excerpt from his book, Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right, Ray Raphael elaborates…

The Constitution of the United States, drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788, did not follow the precedent set by these state constitutions. Despite spending almost four months drafting their new plan, the framers did not include within it a thoughtful listing of rights but only a scattering of guarantees. On September 12, just five days before the end of the Convention, George Mason finally suggested that delegates add a “Bill of Rights” similar to the state declarations of rights, but his motion failed to garner the support of a single state delegation.

Although state conventions ratified the Constitution, several included a caveat: the new plan should be amended as soon as possible. In fact, they proposed scores of amendments, some resembling provisions of what we now know as the Bill of Rights, but many others altering or even deleting structural features of the Constitution. New York’s convention coupled its list of proposed amendments with a demand for a second federal convention to consider these various proposals. The profusion of proposed amendments, plus the prospect of a second convention, frightened supporters of the Constitution, who feared that a new convention, if it met, would revise the fledgling Constitution before it could be put into effect and gut some of its major provisions.

Most leading Federalists hunkered down. In arguing against a second federal convention, they insisted that a bill of rights was not necessary and could even jeopardize rights that were not included. The job of the Constitution, they said, was to state what government could do, not what it couldn’t do. Rights already were secured because the government possessed no power that allowed it to impinge upon them. In fact, any catalog of specified rights would imply that rights were limited to those in the catalog, and not others.

James Madison and George Washington agreed with this argument, but they also took an accurate measure of people’s displeasure. It was strong and it was widespread. Rather than fight a rearguard action against the wave of discontent, they preferred to channel and control it. Article V of the Constitution stipulated that either Congress or state conventions might propose amendments. If Congress acted first, Madison and Washington reasoned, it could take charge of the issue and protect the substantive features of the new plan–congressional taxation, for instance–while giving ground elsewhere. Madison, meanwhile, pledged to his Virginia constituents that he would work to add a bill of rights if they elected him to represent them in Congress.

Once elected, in the First Federal Congress, Madison whittled down the large list of amendments suggested by the states’ ratifying conventions. With President Washington’s blessing, he proposed nineteen that did not endanger key constitutional components. After considerable debate and some revision, Congress pared Madison’s list down to twelve amendments, which it sent to the states for approval. Ten of these, which we call today the Bill of Rights, were ratified by three-quarters of the states, as required by the new Constitution. The genesis of the Bill of Rights, like the origins of the Constitution, was political as well as theoretical.

The short-term effect of the framing and ratification of the Bill of Rights was to put a Federalist stamp on the amendments and to doom the attempts by the Constitution’s opponents to modify the substantive or structural features of the new plan. The long-term effect was to reinforce America’s culture of rights and to infuse specific rights into American jurisprudence. After more than two centuries, the Bill of Rights, which had been so casually dismissed by the framers, figures so prominently in our minds that it often eclipses the Constitution itself. In an era when the word “government” has a bad name, the ten amendments that circumscribe the federal government’s authority over individuals are often viewed more favorably than the Constitution the framers created in 1787…

The backstory of the Bill of Rights, via the always-illuminating Delanceyplace.com

For more on the process that yielded them, and the texts of all 16 proposed amendments, see here.

* Thomas Jefferson, a critic of Federalists, in a 1787 letter to James Madison (who had originally been opposed to the idea of a “bill of rights,” both because he believed that the Constitution as written did not grant the federal government the power to take away people’s rights, and because he [and some other Framers] believed that we have natural rights too numerous to list– and that anything not explicitly included in a Bill of Rights would be unprotected.)

###

As we ponder precedent, we might recall that it was on this date in 1930 that a BBC newsreader had nothing to communicate. His entire script for the 8:45 pm news bulletin was: “There is no news”… after which piano music was played for the rest of the 15-minute segment. The wireless service then returned to broadcasting from the Queen’s Hall in London, where the Wagner opera Parsifal was being performed.

“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”*…

Following the often heated debate between Federalists and their opponents that led to the the ratification and adoption of the U.S. Constitution, the Anti-Federalists were still unsatisfied. Then-Representative James Madison, who studied the deficiencies of the Constitution pointed out by Anti-Federalists, collected proposals (16 in all), and then crafted a series of 12 proposed corrective amendments. Congress approved the twelve articles of amendment on September 25, 1789, and submitted them to the states for ratification. 10 were ultimately ratified– the first 10 amendments to our Constitution… or as we know them, The Bill of Rights.

In an excerpt from his book, Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right, Ray Raphael elaborates…

The Constitution of the United States, drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788, did not follow the precedent set by these state constitutions. Despite spending almost four months drafting their new plan, the framers did not include within it a thoughtful listing of rights but only a scattering of guarantees. On September 12, just five days before the end of the Convention, George Mason finally suggested that delegates add a “Bill of Rights” similar to the state declarations of rights, but his motion failed to garner the support of a single state delegation.

Although state conventions ratified the Constitution, several included a caveat: the new plan should be amended as soon as possible. In fact, they proposed scores of amendments, some resembling provisions of what we now know as the Bill of Rights, but many others altering or even deleting structural features of the Constitution. New York’s convention coupled its list of proposed amendments with a demand for a second federal convention to consider these various proposals. The profusion of proposed amendments, plus the prospect of a second convention, frightened supporters of the Constitution, who feared that a new convention, if it met, would revise the fledgling Constitution before it could be put into effect and gut some of its major provisions.

Most leading Federalists hunkered down. In arguing against a second federal convention, they insisted that a bill of rights was not necessary and could even jeopardize rights that were not included. The job of the Constitution, they said, was to state what government could do, not what it couldn’t do. Rights already were secured because the government possessed no power that allowed it to impinge upon them. In fact, any catalog of specified rights would imply that rights were limited to those in the catalog, and not others.

James Madison and George Washington agreed with this argument, but they also took an accurate measure of people’s displeasure. It was strong and it was widespread. Rather than fight a rearguard action against the wave of discontent, they preferred to channel and control it. Article V of the Constitution stipulated that either Congress or state conventions might propose amendments. If Congress acted first, Madison and Washington reasoned, it could take charge of the issue and protect the substantive features of the new plan–congressional taxation, for instance–while giving ground elsewhere. Madison, meanwhile, pledged to his Virginia constituents that he would work to add a bill of rights if they elected him to represent them in Congress.

Once elected, in the First Federal Congress, Madison whittled down the large list of amendments suggested by the states’ ratifying conventions. With President Washington’s blessing, he proposed nineteen that did not endanger key constitutional components. After considerable debate and some revision, Congress pared Madison’s list down to twelve amendments, which it sent to the states for approval. Ten of these, which we call today the Bill of Rights, were ratified by three-quarters of the states, as required by the new Constitution. The genesis of the Bill of Rights, like the origins of the Constitution, was political as well as theoretical.

The short-term effect of the framing and ratification of the Bill of Rights was to put a Federalist stamp on the amendments and to doom the attempts by the Constitution’s opponents to modify the substantive or structural features of the new plan. The long-term effect was to reinforce America’s culture of rights and to infuse specific rights into American jurisprudence. After more than two centuries, the Bill of Rights, which had been so casually dismissed by the framers, figures so prominently in our minds that it often eclipses the Constitution itself. In an era when the word “government” has a bad name, the ten amendments that circumscribe the federal government’s authority over individuals are often viewed more favorably than the Constitution the framers created in 1787…

The backstory of the Bill of Rights, via the always-illuminating Delanceyplace.com

For more on the process that yielded them, and the texts of all 16 proposed amendments, see here.

* Thomas Jefferson, a critic of Federalists, in a 1787 letter to James Madison (who had originally been opposed to the idea of a “bill of rights,” both because he believed that the Constitution as written did not grant the federal government the power to take away people’s rights, and because he [and some other Framers] believed that we have natural rights too numerous to list– and that anything not explicitly included in a Bill of Rights would be unprotected.)

###

As we ponder precedent, we might recall that it was on this date in 1930 that a BBC newsreader had nothing to communicate. His entire script for the 8:45 pm news bulletin was: “There is no news”… after which piano music was played for the rest of the 15-minute segment. The wireless service then returned to broadcasting from the Queen’s Hall in London, where the Wagner opera Parsifal was being performed.

“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”*…

Following the often heated debate between Federalists and their opponents that led to the the ratification and adoption of the U.S. Constitution, the Anti-Federalists were still unsatisfied. Then-Representative James Madison, who studied the deficiencies of the Constitution pointed out by Anti-Federalists, collected proposals (16 in all), and then crafted a series of 12 proposed corrective amendments. Congress approved the twelve articles of amendment on September 25, 1789, and submitted them to the states for ratification. 10 were ultimately ratified– the first 10 amendments to our Constitution… or as we know them, The Bill of Rights.

In an excerpt from his book, Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right, Ray Raphael elaborates…

The Constitution of the United States, drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788, did not follow the precedent set by these state constitutions. Despite spending almost four months drafting their new plan, the framers did not include within it a thoughtful listing of rights but only a scattering of guarantees. On September 12, just five days before the end of the Convention, George Mason finally suggested that delegates add a “Bill of Rights” similar to the state declarations of rights, but his motion failed to garner the support of a single state delegation.

Although state conventions ratified the Constitution, several included a caveat: the new plan should be amended as soon as possible. In fact, they proposed scores of amendments, some resembling provisions of what we now know as the Bill of Rights, but many others altering or even deleting structural features of the Constitution. New York’s convention coupled its list of proposed amendments with a demand for a second federal convention to consider these various proposals. The profusion of proposed amendments, plus the prospect of a second convention, frightened supporters of the Constitution, who feared that a new convention, if it met, would revise the fledgling Constitution before it could be put into effect and gut some of its major provisions.

Most leading Federalists hunkered down. In arguing against a second federal convention, they insisted that a bill of rights was not necessary and could even jeopardize rights that were not included. The job of the Constitution, they said, was to state what government could do, not what it couldn’t do. Rights already were secured because the government possessed no power that allowed it to impinge upon them. In fact, any catalog of specified rights would imply that rights were limited to those in the catalog, and not others.

James Madison and George Washington agreed with this argument, but they also took an accurate measure of people’s displeasure. It was strong and it was widespread. Rather than fight a rearguard action against the wave of discontent, they preferred to channel and control it. Article V of the Constitution stipulated that either Congress or state conventions might propose amendments. If Congress acted first, Madison and Washington reasoned, it could take charge of the issue and protect the substantive features of the new plan–congressional taxation, for instance–while giving ground elsewhere. Madison, meanwhile, pledged to his Virginia constituents that he would work to add a bill of rights if they elected him to represent them in Congress.

Once elected, in the First Federal Congress, Madison whittled down the large list of amendments suggested by the states’ ratifying conventions. With President Washington’s blessing, he proposed nineteen that did not endanger key constitutional components. After considerable debate and some revision, Congress pared Madison’s list down to twelve amendments, which it sent to the states for approval. Ten of these, which we call today the Bill of Rights, were ratified by three-quarters of the states, as required by the new Constitution. The genesis of the Bill of Rights, like the origins of the Constitution, was political as well as theoretical.

The short-term effect of the framing and ratification of the Bill of Rights was to put a Federalist stamp on the amendments and to doom the attempts by the Constitution’s opponents to modify the substantive or structural features of the new plan. The long-term effect was to reinforce America’s culture of rights and to infuse specific rights into American jurisprudence. After more than two centuries, the Bill of Rights, which had been so casually dismissed by the framers, figures so prominently in our minds that it often eclipses the Constitution itself. In an era when the word “government” has a bad name, the ten amendments that circumscribe the federal government’s authority over individuals are often viewed more favorably than the Constitution the framers created in 1787…

The backstory of the Bill of Rights, via the always-illuminating Delanceyplace.com

For more on the process that yielded them, and the texts of all 16 proposed amendments, see here.

* Thomas Jefferson, a critic of Federalists, in a 1787 letter to James Madison (who had originally been opposed to the idea of a “bill of rights,” both because he believed that the Constitution as written did not grant the federal government the power to take away people’s rights, and because he [and some other Framers] believed that we have natural rights too numerous to list– and that anything not explicitly included in a Bill of Rights would be unprotected.)

###

As we ponder precedent, we might recall that it was on this date in 1930 that a BBC newsreader had nothing to communicate. His entire script for the 8:45 pm news bulletin was: “There is no news”… after which piano music was played for the rest of the 15-minute segment. The wireless service then returned to broadcasting from the Queen’s Hall in London, where the Wagner opera Parsifal was being performed.

#ThomasJefferson, born today in 1743, was America's first ambassador to #France https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/thomas-jefferson/?s=mb #travel #history

#ThomasJefferson, born today in 1743, was America's first ambassador to #France https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/thomas-jefferson/?s=mb #travel #history

#ThomasJefferson, born today in 1743, was America's first ambassador to #France https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/thomas-jefferson/?s=mb #travel #history

#ThomasJefferson, born today in 1743, was America's first ambassador to #France https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/thomas-jefferson/?s=mb #travel #history

#ThomasJefferson, born today in 1743, was America's first ambassador to #France https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/thomas-jefferson/?s=mb #travel #history

Happy Birthday to Thomas Jefferson. We are working while we are celebrating. If you are celebrating, call us when you are done
#ThomasJefferson
#justcalldrpam

"A true patriot will defend his country from its government."

On his birthday, 10 Thomas Jefferson quotes.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/04/13-april-thomas-jefferson-quotes.html

#Quotes #BirthAnniversary #ThomasJefferson

"A true patriot will defend his country from its government."

On his birthday, 10 Thomas Jefferson quotes.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/04/13-april-thomas-jefferson-quotes.html

#Quotes #BirthAnniversary #ThomasJefferson

"A true patriot will defend his country from its government."

On his birthday, 10 Thomas Jefferson quotes.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/04/13-april-thomas-jefferson-quotes.html

#Quotes #BirthAnniversary #ThomasJefferson

"A true patriot will defend his country from its government."

On his birthday, 10 Thomas Jefferson quotes.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/04/13-april-thomas-jefferson-quotes.html

#Quotes #BirthAnniversary #ThomasJefferson

"A true patriot will defend his country from its government."

On his birthday, 10 Thomas Jefferson quotes.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/04/13-april-thomas-jefferson-quotes.html

#Quotes #BirthAnniversary #ThomasJefferson

13. Apr: #ThomasJefferson war der dritte #Präsident der #USA. Heute ist Jeffersons Geburtstag! https://www.kleiner-kalender.de/107387 #Gedenktag #JeffersonsGeburtstag

13. Apr: #ThomasJefferson war der dritte #Präsident der #USA. Heute ist Jeffersons Geburtstag! https://www.kleiner-kalender.de/107387 #Gedenktag #JeffersonsGeburtstag

13. Apr: #ThomasJefferson war der dritte #Präsident der #USA. Heute ist Jeffersons Geburtstag! https://www.kleiner-kalender.de/107387 #Gedenktag #JeffersonsGeburtstag

13. Apr: #ThomasJefferson war der dritte #Präsident der #USA. Heute ist Jeffersons Geburtstag! https://www.kleiner-kalender.de/107387 #Gedenktag #JeffersonsGeburtstag

Jefferson gets glazed too often for being one of the worst of the Founding Fathers

Jefferson gets glazed too often for being one of the worst of the Founding Fathers

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1973076/jefferson-gets-glazed-too-often-for-being-one-of-the-worst-of-the-founding-fathers

Jefferson gets glazed too often for being one of the worst of the Founding Fathers

Jefferson gets glazed too often for being one of the worst of the Founding Fathers

Jefferson gets glazed too often for being one of the worst of the Founding Fathers

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1973076/jefferson-gets-glazed-too-often-for-being-one-of-the-worst-of-the-founding-fathers

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The History of Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Founding Fathers and Freemasonry

📰 Original title: Philadelphia's founding years were rife with conspiracy fears about 'godless' Freemasons and the Illuminati

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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#history #freemasons #thomasjefferson #conspiracy

The History of Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Founding Fathers and Freemasonry

📰 Original title: Philadelphia's founding years were rife with conspiracy fears about 'godless' Freemasons and the Illuminati

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/the-history-of-conspiracy-theories-surrounding-the-founding-fathers-and-freemasonry/?redirpost=0ded0ab9-1961-4eca-b481-5a0ade2e5ce1

#history #freemasons #thomasjefferson #conspiracy

The History of Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Founding Fathers and Freemasonry

📰 Original title: Philadelphia's founding years were rife with conspiracy fears about 'godless' Freemasons and the Illuminati

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/the-history-of-conspiracy-theories-surrounding-the-founding-fathers-and-freemasonry/?redirpost=0ded0ab9-1961-4eca-b481-5a0ade2e5ce1

#history #freemasons #thomasjefferson #conspiracy

The History of Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Founding Fathers and Freemasonry

📰 Original title: Philadelphia's founding years were rife with conspiracy fears about 'godless' Freemasons and the Illuminati

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/the-history-of-conspiracy-theories-surrounding-the-founding-fathers-and-freemasonry/?redirpost=0ded0ab9-1961-4eca-b481-5a0ade2e5ce1

#history #freemasons #thomasjefferson #conspiracy

Paying the Price: Western Europe’s Deadly Historical Amnesia

Western Europe is currently paying the price of historical amnesia. Thanks to decades of mass Muslim migration—with particularly…
#Europe #EU #ChristianEurope #Christianity #Crusades #France #Germany #History #Hungary #Immigration #Islam #jihad #muslim #Muslimimmigrants #Poland #publicsafety #socialcohesion #supremacism #ThomasJefferson #UK #US #Westerncivilization #WesternEurope #westernvalues
https://www.europesays.com/europe/299/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/857805/ Paying the Price: Western Europe’s Deadly Historical Amnesia #ChristianEurope #christianity #Crusades #EU #Europe #European #France #Germany #History #hungary #Immigration #Islam #Jihad #Muslim #MuslimImmigrants #Poland #PublicSafety #SocialCohesion #supremacism #ThomasJefferson #UK #us #WesternCivilization #WesternEurope #WesternValues

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

— Thomas Jefferson

#Stoic #Stoicism #ThomasJefferson

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

— Thomas Jefferson

#Stoic #Stoicism #ThomasJefferson

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

— Thomas Jefferson

#Stoic #Stoicism #ThomasJefferson

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

— Thomas Jefferson

#Stoic #Stoicism #ThomasJefferson

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

— Thomas Jefferson

#Stoic #Stoicism #ThomasJefferson

No kidding: 'Ecofeminist' course at UVA has students consulting goats and lichen about oppression

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.theblaze.com/news/no-kidding-ecofeminist-course-at-uva-has-students-consulting-goats-and-lichen-about-oppression

No kidding: 'Ecofeminist' course at UVA has students consulting goats and lichen about oppression

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.theblaze.com/news/no-kidding-ecofeminist-course-at-uva-has-students-consulting-goats-and-lichen-about-oppression

Trump’s Rose Garden Gets Makeover While He’s Away Starting War https://www.allforgardening.com/1634211/trumps-rose-garden-gets-makeover-while-hes-away-starting-war-2/ #garden #PresidentDonaldTrump #RoseGarden #ThomasJefferson #WhiteHouse #WhiteHouseCorrespondent #WhiteHouseRoseGarden

Trump’s Rose Garden Gets Makeover While He’s Away Starting War https://www.allforgardening.com/1634211/trumps-rose-garden-gets-makeover-while-hes-away-starting-war-2/ #garden #PresidentDonaldTrump #RoseGarden #ThomasJefferson #WhiteHouse #WhiteHouseCorrespondent #WhiteHouseRoseGarden

#ThomasJefferson #paleontology

"Thomas Jefferson was many things: a revolutionary, an enslaver, a horticulturist, and—by some accounts—the 'father of American vertebrate paleontology.' Science historian Keith Thomson looks at Jefferson’s study of fossils—which he suggested were not fossils at all—in an effort to win respect for the natural life of North America.

Thomson writes that, for nearly a decade after publishing Notes, Jefferson abandoned scientific work for politics. But in 1796, after he had temporarily retired from government employment, he received a letter from a friend regarding the discovery, in what’s now West Virginia, of 'the Bones of a Tremendous animal.' The letter also suggested that the creature 'probably was of the Lion kind.'

The fossilized bones of the 'great-claw,' shipped to Jefferson’s residence, were parts of a giant, clawed limb. Following his friend’s lead, Jefferson worked on the assumption that this had been some sort of lion—but one with claws at least three times the length of an African lion’s.

However, after seeing a drawing of a South American giant sloth fossil—a genus known as Megatherium—he reluctantly acknowledged that this was a better fit. In the paper he published on the fossil, Thomson writes, 'Jefferson still seemed to cling to the idea that things would turn around and it would be revealed as a giant lion after all.'"

https://daily.jstor.org/jeffersons-fossils/

#ThomasJefferson #paleontology

"Thomas Jefferson was many things: a revolutionary, an enslaver, a horticulturist, and—by some accounts—the 'father of American vertebrate paleontology.' Science historian Keith Thomson looks at Jefferson’s study of fossils—which he suggested were not fossils at all—in an effort to win respect for the natural life of North America.

Thomson writes that, for nearly a decade after publishing Notes, Jefferson abandoned scientific work for politics. But in 1796, after he had temporarily retired from government employment, he received a letter from a friend regarding the discovery, in what’s now West Virginia, of 'the Bones of a Tremendous animal.' The letter also suggested that the creature 'probably was of the Lion kind.'

The fossilized bones of the 'great-claw,' shipped to Jefferson’s residence, were parts of a giant, clawed limb. Following his friend’s lead, Jefferson worked on the assumption that this had been some sort of lion—but one with claws at least three times the length of an African lion’s.

However, after seeing a drawing of a South American giant sloth fossil—a genus known as Megatherium—he reluctantly acknowledged that this was a better fit. In the paper he published on the fossil, Thomson writes, 'Jefferson still seemed to cling to the idea that things would turn around and it would be revealed as a giant lion after all.'"

https://daily.jstor.org/jeffersons-fossils/

#ThomasJefferson #paleontology

"Thomas Jefferson was many things: a revolutionary, an enslaver, a horticulturist, and—by some accounts—the 'father of American vertebrate paleontology.' Science historian Keith Thomson looks at Jefferson’s study of fossils—which he suggested were not fossils at all—in an effort to win respect for the natural life of North America.

Thomson writes that, for nearly a decade after publishing Notes, Jefferson abandoned scientific work for politics. But in 1796, after he had temporarily retired from government employment, he received a letter from a friend regarding the discovery, in what’s now West Virginia, of 'the Bones of a Tremendous animal.' The letter also suggested that the creature 'probably was of the Lion kind.'

The fossilized bones of the 'great-claw,' shipped to Jefferson’s residence, were parts of a giant, clawed limb. Following his friend’s lead, Jefferson worked on the assumption that this had been some sort of lion—but one with claws at least three times the length of an African lion’s.

However, after seeing a drawing of a South American giant sloth fossil—a genus known as Megatherium—he reluctantly acknowledged that this was a better fit. In the paper he published on the fossil, Thomson writes, 'Jefferson still seemed to cling to the idea that things would turn around and it would be revealed as a giant lion after all.'"

https://daily.jstor.org/jeffersons-fossils/

#ThomasJefferson #paleontology

"Thomas Jefferson was many things: a revolutionary, an enslaver, a horticulturist, and—by some accounts—the 'father of American vertebrate paleontology.' Science historian Keith Thomson looks at Jefferson’s study of fossils—which he suggested were not fossils at all—in an effort to win respect for the natural life of North America.

Thomson writes that, for nearly a decade after publishing Notes, Jefferson abandoned scientific work for politics. But in 1796, after he had temporarily retired from government employment, he received a letter from a friend regarding the discovery, in what’s now West Virginia, of 'the Bones of a Tremendous animal.' The letter also suggested that the creature 'probably was of the Lion kind.'

The fossilized bones of the 'great-claw,' shipped to Jefferson’s residence, were parts of a giant, clawed limb. Following his friend’s lead, Jefferson worked on the assumption that this had been some sort of lion—but one with claws at least three times the length of an African lion’s.

However, after seeing a drawing of a South American giant sloth fossil—a genus known as Megatherium—he reluctantly acknowledged that this was a better fit. In the paper he published on the fossil, Thomson writes, 'Jefferson still seemed to cling to the idea that things would turn around and it would be revealed as a giant lion after all.'"

https://daily.jstor.org/jeffersons-fossils/

A highly amusing alternate history/fantasy story. You think our current government is bad? See what dark arts Thomas Jefferson attempted.

#ShortStory #AmReading #AmReadingFantasy #WritersOfMastodon #History #HistoricalFantasy #JohnAdams #ThomasJefferson #AuthorsOfMastodon #AlternateHIstory #AltHistory #AmReadingFiction

https://calendaroffools.com/stories/for-the-rectitude-of-our-intentions-stephen-kotowych/

A highly amusing alternate history/fantasy story. You think our current government is bad? See what dark arts Thomas Jefferson attempted.

#ShortStory #AmReading #AmReadingFantasy #WritersOfMastodon #History #HistoricalFantasy #JohnAdams #ThomasJefferson #AuthorsOfMastodon #AlternateHIstory #AltHistory #AmReadingFiction

https://calendaroffools.com/stories/for-the-rectitude-of-our-intentions-stephen-kotowych/

A highly amusing alternate history/fantasy story. You think our current government is bad? See what dark arts Thomas Jefferson attempted.

#ShortStory #AmReading #AmReadingFantasy #WritersOfMastodon #History #HistoricalFantasy #JohnAdams #ThomasJefferson #AuthorsOfMastodon #AlternateHIstory #AltHistory #AmReadingFiction

https://calendaroffools.com/stories/for-the-rectitude-of-our-intentions-stephen-kotowych/