The Jefferson Collection

Author: Peterson
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: He once refused to approve laws that were beneficial to the public welfare and necessary. He once prohibited his governors from passing urgent and extremely important laws, either shelving them indefinitely for his approval, or failing to follow up on them after they were shelved. He refused to pass other laws that would benefit people in vast regions unless those people gave up their representative rights in the legislative body, and representative rights are extremely valuable to people, only frightening to tyrants. He called the legislative body to meet in extraordinary, highly inconvenient, and distant places where their public records were stored, merely to tire them out and force them to accept his measures.