Posted on 10/18/2017 2:18:55 PM PDT by iowamark
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Thick tomes on the laws of England. Half a dozen legal dictionaries. Books on Roman law and maritime law.
Those are some of the books Thomas Jefferson thought aspiring lawyers should be reading or using as reference. The University of Virginia has been working to make the hundreds of books on Jefferson's legal reading list available to the public through an online library.
The book list goes back to the creation of the University of Virginia, a project Jefferson took on after he finished serving two terms as America's third president. A voracious reader himself, Jefferson believed the school's library would be the heart of the new university, which opened in 1825. So he drew up a list of about 7,000 books ranging in topic from agriculture to zoology that he believed the school should have in its collections. At the time, books were pricey, and Jefferson thought part of the duty of the university was to make great works available for study.
"Great standard works of established reputation, too voluminous and too expensive for private libraries, should have a place in every public library, for the free resort of individuals," Jefferson wrote of the list of works he drew up...
It was a law librarian at the university who, 40 years ago, got the idea of re-creating the collection of law books Jefferson recommended. Since then, the university has collected 336 of the 375 legal works...
A hundred years later we're once again creating a different type of library with these books," said Loren Moulds, a librarian at the university who is helping lead the project. "Jefferson was dedicated to democratizing information. This is another attempt by us to do something in a library that opens these up and makes them more broadly available."
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“The aim is for the work to be finished in October or early November.”
Jefferson was a leader in the concept of the public library as well as the public university.
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Volumes that would never see the light of day and today’s academic climate.
Exciting
And I am sure he would have thought Anwar Al-Awlaki’s kids born in Yemen were natural born citizens eligible to be President the same as foreign nationals children born here....../s
Jefferson was no fool. He was buried in debt, so he gets his party in Congress to buy his library.
My problem with Jefferson is that he gives an opinion.....and at some point you will find another opinion which negates the first. Drives me nuts.
And I don't think he was as kind to his slaves as Washington. But that's my gut talking.
Yes, I hold a lower personal opinion of Jefferson than Washington or Madison. It is no accident that Jefferson’s political party has been the party of corruption and evil for two hundred years.
Well, look! Now you’ll have another 370-odd non-founding documents to distort and mis- and faux- quote to support your imaginary rules for natural-born citizenship!
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