 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 2003 - 276 pages
...fact triable by the laws of the land, and not by the laws of nations. December 20,1787 (MCMII, 274) I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors indeed more at their ease, at the expense of the people. December... | |
 | Edmund Sears Morgan - Medicine - 2004 - 344 pages
...new government, instead of merely revising the Articles of Confederation. To Madison he confessed, "I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive." The new one promised to turn oppressive quickly, he thought, because it lacked a bill... | |
 | David L. Faigman - History - 2004 - 440 pages
...philosophy, firmly believing that power inevitably threatened liberty. Jefferson wrote to Madison, "I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."49 Still, being in Paris, Jefferson well appreciated that a disunited America led to disrespect... | |
 | Michael Warren - 2005 - 408 pages
...our rights that we resort to government at all." — Thomas Jefferson to Francois D'lvernois, 1795 "I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive." — Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 12/20/1787 "We're dealing with the oldest political... | |
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The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm, than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in... 
