...reserved to the separate states or the people. The Bill of Rights is, in Jefferson's luminous phrase, 'What the people are entitled to against every government...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.' In short, it enshrines the whole philosophy of liberal democracy. Yet Tocqueville seems...

...wandered should be brought back to it, and to have established general right instead of general wrong, let me add that a bill of rights is what the people...every government on earth, general or particular, & what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference, the second feature I dislike, and greatly...

...Virginia, Lib. Am., 285 (Query 17). 19. See Jefferson to James Madison, 20 December 1787, Papers, 12:440 ("A bill of rights is what the people are entitled...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.") In his correspondence with Madison during the critical years 1787-1789, Jefferson helped...

...wandered should be brought back to it, and to have established general right instead of general wrong. Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people...every government on earth, general or particular, & what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences. The second feature I dislike, and greatly...

...against monopolies, the eternal & unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury. . .Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people...every government on earth, general or particular, & what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences. Constitution for Virginia [#]. Jefferson...

...of a bill of rights disturbed him deeply. "A bill of rights," he wrote to Madison in December 1787, "is what the people are entitled to against every...particular, and what no just government should refuse." Such a bill, he went on, should provide "clearly and without sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom...

...constitution of 1787, the true foundation of American nationhood, but passionate for a Bill of Rights, which "is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth." 5 In the Jeffersonian tradition there is no sense that who we are is to a great extent defined by the...

...of the general government which is not given . . . ." On the contrary, Jefferson held that "a hill of rights is what the people are entitled to against...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference." M Initially, Madison had not considered "omission [of a hill of rights] "Whitney v. Califomia,...

...to his friend and The Birth of the Second Amendment Founding Father James Madison, in which he said: "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth." Although Federalists thought that the Constitution was fine as it was, they realized that without a...

...possible on it, and even copies of the survey, report, etc. To William Carmichael, Paris, Dec. 11, 1787 A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to...what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences. To James Madison, Paris, Dec. 20, 1787 I think our governments will remain virtuous for...