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Ratification of the Constitution Indexes | Index to Volume 14: Commentaries on the Constitution (2), 8 November – 17 December 1787 | J | Jefferson, Thomas (Va.)
John Brown Cutting to William Short, London, 3 November [Commentaries on the Constitution 14:461]
John Brown Cutting to William Short, London, 13 December [Commentaries on the Constitution 14:480]+
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, Paris, 20 December [Commentaries on the Constitution 14:485]+
– as possible first President of U.S. [1 reference]
– opinion on Constitution solicited [2 references]
– receives copies of Constitution [2 references]
– said to be critical of Constitution [2 references]
– condemns slave trade [1 reference]
– letters from [6 references + 1 subentry]
– letters to [8 references + 1 subentry]
CC:Vol. 1, 81n [biographical information or reference from previous volume]