...which must necessarily follow the living so far beyond our income." — Letter to William Hay, 1787 "The question whether one generation of men has a right to bind another * * * is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental...

...Jefferson to write, although he did not know by what conveyance he would get the letter to his friend.2 "The question whether one generation of men has a...started either on this or our side of the water," Jefferson began. It had been forced upon his mind in course of the reflections in which everyone in...

...develope a little more than is practicable in the hurry of the moment of making up general dispatches. The question Whether one generation of men has a right...to bind another, seems never to have been started [stated?] either on this or our side of the water.35 Yet it is a question of such consequences as not...

...September 1789 (two years before Paine published The Rights of Man), Jefferson wrote to Madison addressing "the question whether one generation of men has a right to bind another."24 His answer was a resounding No. Earlier, in his Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-82),...

...September, 1789 (two years before Paine published The Rights of Man), Jefferson wrote to Madison addressing "(t]he question whether one generation of men has a right to bind another."24 His answer was a resounding No. Earlier, in his Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-2),...

...of course, the remarkable letter that Jefferson wrote to Madison, from Paris, on September 6,1789. The question Whether one generation of men has a right...our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every...

...question, whether one generation of men has a right to hind another, seems never to have started on this our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such...merit decision, but place, also, among the fundamental principlesof government. -THOMAS JEFFERSON, i789 The mother: Indian, earth, and Nature (seen as one...

...question," Davis would say, "let us turn to vol. 3, page 1o3, Jefferson's works, and read what he says, viz: The question whether one generation of men has a right to bind another ...'" Expounding Jefferson in this way, drawing from his works all the Populist answers to the new...

...develope a little more than is practicable in the hurry of the moment of making up general despatches. The question Whether one generation of men has a right...our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every...

...political and legal doctrine remarkable for its boldness and simplicity. "The question," Jefferson began, "whether one generation of men has a right to bind...our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every...