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...Jefferson's principles as enunciated in the Declaration of Independence were exemplary but he had trouble applying them to specific situations. He was not a genuine thinker like James Madison or John Adams, who hammered out a consistent theory of liberty. He cheerfully assumed he knew the truth and, much like the fanatics of the French Revolution, always thought he was expressing the will of the people...
...JEFFERSON & CIVIL LIBERTIES by Leonard W. Levy. 225 pages. Belknap...
...there is any truth held to be self-evident, it is that Thomas Jefferson was the father of American liberties. Anyone doubting the dogma, like Henry Adams or Albert Beveridge, has been dismissed as a crotchety old conservative. Now a Brandeis University historian has compared Jefferson's actions with his glowing words, and found the two a chasm apart "Jefferson's pen," writes Leonard Levy, "was mightier than his practice...
Throttling the Press. As a leading member of the lower house of the Vir ginia legislature during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson supported a loyalty oath requiring all males over 16 to swear aliegiance to the state. Those refusing were forced to pay triple taxes and stripped of their civil rights. He also helped pass a bill to round up Tories and ship them to designated areas in the interior. He drafted a bill of attainder-which in effect condemns the victim without a trial-against a group of Tories who were plundering the countryside...
Died. Otto Eggers, 81, Manhattan architect, onetime associate of John Russell Pope, who with his partner Daniel Higgins, supervised construction of Pope's two most famous designs after his sudden death in 1937: Washington's National Gallery of Art and Jefferson Memorial; of a heart attack; in New Rochelle...