Creating the United States

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In this letter to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson identified the absence of a bill of rights and the failure to provide for rotation in office or term limits as primary problems in the new federal Constitution. Being in foreign service in France left Jefferson on the periphery of the struggles to write and ratify a new federal constitution.
In this letter to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson identified the absence of a bill of rights and the failure to provide for rotation in office or term limits as primary problems in the new federal Constitution. Being in foreign service in France left Jefferson on the periphery of the struggles to write and ratify a new federal constitution.