Jefferson wrote in 1785 in a letter to John Jay that

Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".

In 1787, James Madison wrote Thomas Jefferson in France for background information on constitutional government to use at the Constitutional Convention.

Although she greatly admired Jefferson, she also wrote:

Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, wrote: " Bacon, Locke and Newton.

In an 1803 letter to William Henry Harrison, Jefferson wrote:

Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter, “ In our private pursuits it is a great advantage that every honest employment is deemed honorable.

" Thomas Jefferson wrote letters to friends in Pig Latin ( see Hailman in the references below ).

#* In a letter to Benjamin Rush prefacing his " Syllabus of an Estimate of the Merit of the Doctrines of Jesus ", Jefferson wrote:

Notable examples of psychobiographies are those of Lewis Namier, who wrote about the British House of Commons, and Fawn Brodie, who wrote about Thomas Jefferson.

Elected Vice President in 1796, when he came in second to John Adams of the Federalists, Jefferson opposed Adams and with Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which attempted to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Following the passage of the Intolerable Acts by the British Parliament in 1774, Jefferson wrote a set of resolutions against the acts.

Jefferson wrote an ordinance banning slavery in all the nation's territories though it wasn't passed into law.

" As to the hope that it may ... induce England to treat us better ," wrote Gallatin to Jefferson shortly after the bill had become law, " I think is entirely groundless ... government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated ; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals as if he could do it better than themselves.

On June 24 Jefferson wrote his last letter, to a Washington newspaper, the National Intelligencer, where he once more reaffirmed his faith in the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence.

: Jefferson wrote his own epitaph, which reads:

As Thomas Jefferson in Paris wrote to John Adams in London, " It really is an assembly of demigods.

Considering Congress's busy schedule, Jefferson probably had limited time for writing over the next seventeen days, and likely wrote the draft quickly.

Although Jefferson wrote that Congress had " mangled " his draft version, the Declaration that was finally produced, according to his biographer John Ferling, was " the majestic document that inspired both contemporaries and posterity.

Jefferson and Madison were deeply upset by the unconstitutionality of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 ; they secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which called on state legislatures to nullify unconstitutional laws.

Jefferson wrote on February 12 1798:

Thomas Jefferson wrote in his 1774 A Summary View of the Rights of British America that " a free people their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Thomas Jefferson wrote favorably in response to Jackson in December 1823 and extended a preemptive welcome to Monticello: " I recall with pleasure the remembrance of our joint labors while in the Senate together in times of great trial and of hard battling, battles indeed of words, not of blood, as those you have since fought so much for your own glory & that of your country ; with the assurance that my attamts continue undiminished, accept that of my great respect & consideration.

Breaking with Hamilton and what became the Federalist Party in 1791, Madison and Thomas Jefferson organized what they called the Republican Party ( later called by historians the Democratic-Republican Party ) He co-authored, along with Thomas Jefferson, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 to protest the Alien and Sedition Acts.

He thought foreign and Federalist elements created the Quasi War of 1798 – 1800, and were behind efforts to prevent the election of Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800.

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 were written secretly by Vice President Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, respectively.

" Nullification can be traced back to arguments by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in writing the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798.

Cheek locates the fundamental principles of Calhoun's republicanism in the " Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions " ( 1798 ) written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.

This was followed by the splitting off in 1798 from Herkimer County of two portions: one, Oneida County, was larger than the current Oneida County, including the present Jefferson, Lewis, and part of Oswego Counties ; another portion, together with a portion of Tioga County, was taken to form Chenango County.

Portions of the township were taken to form Mendham Township ( March 29, 1749 ), Washington Township ( April 2, 1798 ), Chester Township ( April 1, 1799 ), Jefferson Township ( February 11, 1804 ), Mount Olive Township ( March 22, 1871 ), Mount Arlington ( November 3, 1890 ) and Netcong ( October 23, 1894 ).

John Adams owned none ; George Washington freed his slaves in his will ( his wife independently held numerous dower slaves ); Thomas Jefferson freed five slaves in his will, and the remaining 130 were sold to settle his estate debts ; James Madison did not free his slaves but some were sold to pay off estate debts, and his wife and son retained most to work Montpelier plantation ; Benjamin Franklin freed his slaves ; Alexander Hamilton likely owned slaves and freed them, as he was an officer of the New York Manumission Society ; the society was founded by John Jay, who freed his domestic slaves in 1798, the same year as governor he signed a gradual abolition law in New York.

On a visit to America in 1798, Kościuszko collected his back pay and entrusted it to his friend Thomas Jefferson in his will, directing him to spend the American money on freeing and educating black slaves, including Jefferson's.

When he was leaving America after a visit in 1798 during which he collected back pay, Kościuszko wrote a last will, naming Thomas Jefferson the executor and leaving his property and money in America to be used to buy the freedom of black slaves, including Jefferson's, and to educate them for independent life and work.

In November 1798, David Brown led a group in Dedham, Massachusetts in setting up a liberty pole with the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.

After breaking with his cousin the President Thomas Jefferson in 1806, he founded the Tertium quids, a faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that called for a return to the Principles of 1798 and renounced what it saw as creeping nationalism.

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 ( written secretly by Jefferson and James Madison ) proclaim these principles.

When the Federalists passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which provide a classic statement in support of states ' rights.

Gutzman argues that the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798 by Jefferson and Madison were not only responses to immediate threats but were legitimate responses based on the long-standing principles of states ' rights and strict adherence to the Constitution.

In an 1803 letter to Joseph Priestley, Jefferson states that he conceived the idea of writing his view of the " Christian System " in a conversation with Dr. Benjamin Rush during 1798 – 99.

In 1798, Stone stepped down from the court to serve in the United States House of Representatives for one term ; during the contested 1800 presidential election, he cast his vote for Thomas Jefferson when the election was sent to the House for a final decision.

Spaight was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1798, filling the unexpired term of Nathan Bryan ; he was elected to a two-year term in 1799, serving until 1801, and though elected as a Federalist, his views on states rights led him to become associated with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson wrote on Feb. 12, 1798:

He served in the House of Representatives from 1790 to 1798, and again from 1801 to 1803 ; in between, he was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and was an Elector for Jefferson ( and Aaron Burr ) in 1800.

" Callender spent nine months in prison under the Sedition Act of 1798 for libeling the sitting president ; Jefferson pardoned him immediately after defeating Adams and taking office.