The Life And Times of Thomas Jefferson
The Life And Times of Thomas Jefferson
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Jefferson had resigned his seat in Congress, had gone home, and had been elected to the Virginia Legislature.
The temptation to accept the appointment as Minister to France was great, and he hesitated. After keeping the messenger of Congress waiting several days, he declined the position. He pre ferred to serve in the Virginia Legislature, where the opportunity was golden to accomplish a vast work of democratic reform.
Under the Old Order in Virginia, the main props of British aristocracy had b...een deeply planted. The union of Church and State; the right of the oldest son to inherit the whole estate of the father; the law of entails, which kept the lands in the fam ily, in spite of debts of the heir, or the heir s own wish to sell each of these antidemocratic prin ciples was in full force in Virginia.
In law, it was a crime not to baptize children into the Episcopal Church; a crime to bring a Quaker into the colony; a crime for Quakers to as semble.
166 JEFFERSON IN VIRGINIA In law, the heretic was burnt; and he who de nied God, or claimed that there were three Gods, or pretended not to understand and believe in so simple a proposition as the Trinity, was a felonious culprit, who could not hold office, could not be any body s guardian, executor, or administrator, was liable to lose the custody of his own children, and would have to continue his theological meditations in the penitentiary.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Jefferson had resigned his seat in Congress, had gone home, and had been elected to the Virginia Legislature.
The temptation to accept the appointment as Minister to France was great, and he hesitated. After keeping the messenger of Congress waiting several days, he declined the position. He pre ferred to serve in the Virginia Legislature, where the opportunity was golden to accomplish a vast work of democratic reform.
Under the Old Order in Virginia, the main props of British aristocracy had b...een deeply planted. The union of Church and State; the right of the oldest son to inherit the whole estate of the father; the law of entails, which kept the lands in the fam ily, in spite of debts of the heir, or the heir s own wish to sell each of these antidemocratic prin ciples was in full force in Virginia.
In law, it was a crime not to baptize children into the Episcopal Church; a crime to bring a Quaker into the colony; a crime for Quakers to as semble.
166 JEFFERSON IN VIRGINIA In law, the heretic was burnt; and he who de nied God, or claimed that there were three Gods, or pretended not to understand and believe in so simple a proposition as the Trinity, was a felonious culprit, who could not hold office, could not be any body s guardian, executor, or administrator, was liable to lose the custody of his own children, and would have to continue his theological meditations in the penitentiary.
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