Lex Christianorum

T HE LAST SOURCE FOR JEFFERSON'S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE we will review is Sir Edward Coke. Educated as a lawyer, Jefferson would ha...

“A LL OF ITS AUTHORITY RESTS," Jefferson wrote about the Declaration of Independence to his fellow Virginian, Richard Henry Lee, "...

A LGERNON SIDNEY IS THE FINAL of four names expressly identified by Thomas Jefferson as a source of the ideas behind the Declaration of Inde...

“T HE LINKAGE IS DIRECT," Carl Becker tells us in his book The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Ideas , "Jef...

I N HIS LETTER TO RICHARD HENRY LEE, Jefferson expressly referred to four sources of the thoughts behind the Declaration of Independence: Ar...

C ICERO WAS INVOKED BY THOMAS JEFFERSON in his letter to Richard Henry Lee* as one of the classical sources that fed or informed the Declara...

C ICERO ADDRESSES THE ISSUE OF HAPPINESS in various of his works, but in our endeavor to determine what Jefferson's notion of happiness ...

A RISTOTLE IS NOT GENERALLY ACCORDED HIS DUE ROLE in the thinking of Thomas Jefferson, and yet he is the first author of books of public rig...

T HE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, the ever astute G. K. Chesterton noted in his book What I Saw in America , is "perhaps the only piece...

The pre-existing and unwritten law underlying our political institutions at their founding presupposed a natural moral law, a law based upon...