The Declaration of Independence was not an effort to “find out new principles,” according to Thomas Jefferson. Instead, it was intended as “an expression of the American mind,” which was based on the principles of the greats like Locke, Cicero – and a guy named Algernon Sidney – whose book was owned by Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Franklin and many others.
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Book – Discourses Concerning Government
Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee (8 May 1825)
Poor Richard’s Alamanack – 1750
Benjamin Franklin’s Library Inventory 1781
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Thomas Jefferson to Mason Locke Weems (13 Dec 1804)
Chris Baker – 1997 Article at FEE
Wolverton: Forgotten Influences of the Founders
Samuel Adams – American Independence Speech
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