Abstract

In a famous letter to Henry Lee, written on May 8, 1825, almost fifty years after the signing of the American Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson gave his most extensive and reflective account of his great handiwork. By way of response to a published remark of Timothy Pickering that the Declaration did not contain an idea but what had been hackneyed in Congress two years before, Jefferson wrote:

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