Jefferson Collection (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Peterson
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: He once refused to approve laws that were beneficial to public welfare and necessary. He once prohibited his governors from passing urgent and extremely important laws, either shelving them for his approval or, after shelving them, showing no further interest in them. He refused to pass other laws that would benefit the people in vast regions unless those people relinquished their representation in the legislative body, for representation was extremely valuable to people but only terrifying to tyrants. He convened the legislative body in extraordinary, highly inconvenient, and distant locations of public archives, merely to tire them out and force them to accept his measures.