Thomas Jefferson 
Jefferson’s Notes, on the State of Virginia [PDF ebook] 
With the Appendixes Complete; To Which Is Subjoined, a Sublime and Argumentative Dissertation, on Mr. Jefferson’s Religious Principles

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