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The custodians of Adams’s books in Boston Public Library told me in December 2001 that demand to read them had scarcely risen since McCullough (2001) had been published. Franklin was rarely present at the PA constitutional convention of 1776, which he nominally chaired. But he did approve of unicameralism, see the letter quoted by Van Doren [1938] 1991, 554. Tom Paine, a principal author of the PA constitution according to John Adams, was in Paris in 1787 and again in 1789–90. But he spoke no French.
There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century & half without rebellion? . What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it’s natural manure. (Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith (Adams’s son-in-law), November 13, 1787; Peterson 1984, 910–12) Jefferson’s language and his (dubious) statistical inference both come direct from Condorcet, who had written, In the eleven years that the thirteen American governments have existed, there has only been one uprising.
Etienne on June 3, 1789; 2. that of Condorcet (for the complex provenance of which see McLean and Hewitt 1994, 55–63); 3. the second of Lafayette’s three efforts, composed in June 1789; 4. the DDHC as finally approved by the National Convention. 1 attempts to set out the most important points from the four declarations with clauses on the same subject on the same row. The numbers of clauses are given when either the original is numbered or numbers can easily be assigned. In June 1789, Jefferson is still in his cautious phase as to content, though not as to behavior.
