Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4. Томас Джефферсон

the assurances of my great esteem and respect.

      Th: Jefferson.

      LETTER LXXXIV.—TO DON VALENTINE DE FORONDA, October 4, 1809

      TO DON VALENTINE DE FORONDA.

      Monticello, October 4, 1809.

      Dear Sir,

      Your favor of August the 26th came to hand in the succeeding month, and have now to thank you for the pamphlet it contained. I have read it with pleasure, and find the constitution proposed would probably be as free as is consistent with hereditary institutions. It has one feature which I like much; that which provides that when the three co-ordinate branches differ in their construction of the constitution, the opinion of two branches shall overrule the third. Our constitution has not sufficiently solved this difficulty.