 | Citizen of Massachusetts, Alfred Ellingwood Giles - Bigamy - 1882 - 80 pages
...Mr. Jefferson was not a member, he being absent as minister to France. As soon as he saw the draught of the Constitution proposed for adoption, he, in...expressed his disappointment at the absence of an express declaration insuring the freedom of religion (2 Jeff. Works, 355), but was willing to accept... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1156 pages
...this convention Mr. Jefferson was not a member, he being then absent as minister to France. As soon as he saw the draft of the constitution proposed for...expressed his disappointment at the absence of an express declaration insuring the freedom of religion (2 Jeff. Works, 355), but was willing to accept... | |
 | American Historical Association - History - 1888 - 596 pages
...this convention Mr. Jefferson was not a member, he being then absent as minister to France. As soon as he saw the draft of the Constitution proposed for...expressed his disappointment at the absence of an express declaration insuring the freedom of religion (2 Jeff. Works, 355), but was willing to accept... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Church and state - 1888 - 184 pages
...this convention Mr. Jefferson was not a member, he being then absent as minister to France. As soon as he saw the draft of the Constitution proposed for...expressed his disappointment at the absence of an express declaration insuring the freedom of religion (2 Jeff. Works, 355), but was willing to accept... | |
 | James Kirby - Law - 1897 - 452 pages
...being then absent as minister to France. As soon as he saw the draft of the Constitution proposed fur adoption, he, in a letter to a friend, expressed his disappointment at the absence of an express declaration insuring the freedom of religion (2 Jeff. Works, 355), but was willing to accept... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 688 pages
...this convention Mr. Jefferson was not a member, he being then absent as minister to France. As soon as he saw the draft of the Constitution proposed for...expressed his disappointment at the absence of an express declaration insuring the freedom of religion (2 Jeff. Works, 355), but was willing to accept... | |
 | David Kemper Watson - Constitutional history - 1910 - 1074 pages
...this Convention Mr. Jefferson was not a member, he then being absent as minister to France. As soon as he saw the draft of the Constitution proposed for...expressed his disappointment at the absence of an express declaration insuring the freedom of religion, but was willing to accept it as it was, trusting... | |
 | Eugene Wambaugh - Constitutional law - 1915 - 1106 pages
...this convention Mr. Jefferson was not a member, he being then absent as minister to France. As soon as he saw the draft of the Constitution proposed for...expressed his disappointment at the absence of an express declaration insuring the freedom of religion (2 Jeff. Works, 355), but was willing to accept... | |
 | Charles Ellewyin George - Banking law - 1927 - 444 pages
...this convention Mr. Jefferson was not a member, he being then absent as minister to France. As soon as he saw the draft of the constitution proposed for...expressed his disappointment at the absence of an express declaration insuring the freedom of religion (2 Jeff. Works, 355), but was willing to accept... | |
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In a little more than a year after the passage of this statute the convention met which prepared the Constitution of the United States. Of this convention Mr. Jefferson was not a member, he being then absent as minister to France. As soon as he saw the... 
