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Clinton, our domestic Gorbachev, surrenders 200 years of gain by the non-rich in America and devastatingly compromises our personal economic security, our environment, our Internet and all our public assets as the voices of Thomas Jefferson's and Franklin D. Roosevelt's and John F. Kennedy's followers are stilled within the world's oldest political party...
...plumb the rich psychic themes of Steve Forbes' relationship with his flamboyant father, the late Malcolm Forbes Sr. His father, after all, is the man who used to make his children practice the bagpipes and wear matching kilts to church on Sundays; who bought a bottle of Thomas Jefferson's claret for $157,000; who rode motorcycles and hot-air balloons, escorted Elizabeth Taylor and collected homoerotic art, Faberge eggs, 12,000 toy soldiers, an island in Fiji, a chateau in Normandy and a palace in Morocco...
...JEFFERSON AND THE CONSTITUTION...
...SHAME THAT YOUR ITEM ON NEVADA rancher Dick Carver, "That Pocket Constitution," contained a reader's erroneous reference to Thomas Jefferson as a drafter of the Constitution [LETTERS, Nov. 13]. Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence but not the Constitution. He was Minister to France when the Constitution was written in 1787 and objected strongly to the omission of a bill of rights. Partly as a result of Jefferson's urging, the first 10 Amendments were soon added to the Constitution. GARY L. TAYLOR U.S. District Judge Santa Ana, California...
...ALTHOUGH JEFFERSON DID NOT DIRECTLY draft the new Constitution, your letter writer is correct in his belief that when it was being considered, Jefferson was wary of the idea of a strong central government. Initially, he was critical of the proposed Constitution because it contained no guarantees of civil rights. No doubt Jefferson's criticism influenced the turnabout on this issue of fellow Virginian James Madison, who was a principal drafter of the Constitution and who later proposed the Bill of Rights. ROGER W. SEILER South Nyack, New York...