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Equality

Introduction
1.The Putney Debates, 29 Oct. 1647
2.James Harrington, Commonwealth of Oceana 70--75, 1656
3.Thomas Gordon, Cato's Letters, no. 45, 16 Sept. 1721
4.Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, bk. 15, CHS. 1, 4--8, 1748
5.Benjamin Franklin to John Waring, 17 Dec. 1763
6.William Eddis, Letters from America, 20 Sept. 1770 17 Feb. 1772
7.Patrick Henry to Robert Pleasants, 18 Jan. 1773
8.Gouverneur Morris to John Penn, 20 May 1774
9.Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776
10.John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 Apr. 1776
11.Pennsylvania Evening Post, 27 Apr. 1776
12.Abigail Adams to John Adams, 7 May 1776
13.John Adams to James Sullivan, 26 May 1776
14.Democraticus, Loose Thoughts on Government, 7 June 1776
15.A Watchman, Pennsylvania Packet, 10 June 1776
16.Virginia Declaration of Rights, 12 June 1776
17.Edmund Randolph, History of Virginia 253, 1809
18.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Debates in Congress, 2--4 July 1776
19.A Citizen of New Jersey, Pennsylvania Evening Post, 30 July 1776
20.Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821
21.Rejected Constitution for Massachusetts, 1778
22.Return of Sutton, Massachusetts, 18 May 1778
23.Thomas Jefferson to David Rittenhouse, 19 July 1778
24.Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, 14 Mar. 1779
25.Massachusetts Constitution, 1780
26.Return of Northampton, Massachusetts, 22 May 1780
27.Benjamin Franklin, Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, Sept. 1782
28.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Queries 14 AND 18, 137--43, 162--63, 1784
29.Timothy Pickering to Rufus King, 6 Mar. 1785
30.John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 25 Apr. 1785
31.John Jay to Richard Price, 27 Sept. 1785
32.Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 28 Oct. 1785
33.James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1786
34.John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, 1787
35.Records of the Federal Convention
36.Federal Farmer, no. 7, 31 Dec. 1787
37.Luther Martin, Genuine Information, 1788
38.Yeomanry of Massachusetts, 25 Jan. 1788
39.John Jay to the President of the [English] Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, June 1788
40.Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 5 May 1789
41.Edmund Randolph to James Madison, 19 May 1789
42.Benjamin Franklin, Queries and Remarks respecting Alterations in the Constitution of Pennsylvania, 1789
43.James Madison, Memorandum on an African Colony for Freed Slaves, 20 Oct. 1789
44.Noah Webster, Miscellaneous Remarks on Divizions of Property . . . in the United States, Feb. 1790
45.James Madison to Benjamin Rush, 20 Mar. 1790
46.John Adams to Samuel Adams, 18 Oct. 1790
47.A Freeman, Maryland Gazette, 30 Dec. 1790
48.James Wilson, Of Man, as a Member of Society, Lectures on Law, 1791
49.Thomas Jefferson, Notes of a Conversation with Alexander Hamilton, 13 Aug. 1791
50.James Madison, Parties, 23 Jan. 1792
51.Nathaniel Chipman, Sketches of the Principles of Government 177--82, 1793
52.St. George Tucker to Jeremy Belknap, 24 Jan. 1795
53.John Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 21 Mar. 1795
54.St. George Tucker to Jeremy Belknap, 29 June 1795
55.James Sullivan to Jeremy Belknap, 30 July 1795
56.St. George Tucker, A Dissertation on Slavery, in Blackstone's Commentaries 2:App. 31--32, 35--43, 54--55, 68--69, 74--81 (1803), 1796
57.John Adams to George Churchman and Jacob Lindley, 24 Jan. 1801
58.John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 9 July 1813
59.John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 13 July 1813
60.John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 Sept. 1813
61.Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 28 Oct. 1813
62.John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 15 Nov. 1813
63.John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 16 July 1814
64.Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 6 Apr. 1816
65.James Madison to Robert J. Evans, 15 June 1819
66.Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, 22 Apr. 1820
67.Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 12 June 1823
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