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Jefferson remained in Congress until September 1776 and then returned to Monticello. A few weeks later he entered the Virginia Houe of Delegates. Over three years he proposed 126 bills, and the House passed most of them. His legislation abolished hereditary restrictions on property (called entail and primogeniture), which he considered antirepublican, and established a state library and a new system of state courts. ” Although it was not adopted until 1786, this bill served as another call for liberty and a statement of natural rights that shaped political debate.
Colonial protests, including a boycott of trade with England, forced Parliament to rescind the Stamp Act. In his diary Adams told of stamp tax collectors from New England to Georgia being forced to resign their offices and of colonists “more determined to defend” their liberties than ever before. He moved closer in thought to his cousin Samuel Adams, an increasingly radical dissident who, John Adams said, exhibited “refined policy, steadfast integrity, exquisite humanity, genteel erudition .
Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. ———, ed. Thomas Jefferson Writings. New York: Viking Press, 1984. Weisberger, Bernard. America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800. New York: William Morrow, 2000. JAMES MADISON (1751–1836) Fourth President, 1809–1817 JAMES MADISON (Library of Congress) “On the issue of the war are staked our national sovereignty on the high seas. . ” —Inaugural words, second term, March 4, 1813 A s British troops neared the White House during the War of 1812, First Lady Dolley Madison grabbed Gilbert Stuart’s painting of George Washington, hurriedly removed it from its frame, rolled it up, and gave it to someone for safekeeping.