...compromise of the opposite claims of the great and little States'; but he insisted that a bill of rights 'is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse or rest in inference.' Professing...

...compromise of the opposite claims of the great and little States'; but he insisted that a bill of rights 'is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse or rest in inference.' Professing...

..."without check, limitation or control." And Thomas Jefferson wrote to Madison that "a Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular." l 1 Elliot's Debates, III, 317, 442, 446-449. 461, 593-594. Jefferson (Ford's...

...will have a right to take away trials by jury in all civil cases. Let me add, that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. The second...

...... is surely a gratis dictum, the reverse of which might just as well be said ... a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference." George Washington:...

..."I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away. Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference." ("Works," Vol....

...triable by the laws of the land, and not by the laws of nations. . . . Let me add, that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and no just government should refuse it, or rest on inferences." And to General...

...not to use that right to cover calumniating insinuations.—Thomas Jefferson (1808). A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse or rest on inferences.—Thomas Jefferson...

...to use that right to cover calumniating insinuations. — Thomas Jefferson (1808). A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse or rest on inferences. — Thomas...

...desire it." THOMAS JEFFERSON. (In 1787 before the enactment of the Bill of Rights.) "A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse or rest on inferences." 'JOSEPHUS...