Proposed constitution for Virginia 1776

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Proposed constitution for Virginia 1776

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Thomas Jefferson's proposed constitution for Virginia, June 1776. This is the third and final draft and was printed in Paul Leicester Ford's The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, volume 2, page 7, where the history of this document is noted. The first and second drafts are in the Library of Congress. Autograph document, presented to the Lenox Library by Mr. Alexander Maitland in 1894

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