The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson
By Subject
PHYSIOCRATS / TURGOT
Everybody here is trying their hand at forming declarations of
rights. As something of that kind is going on with you also, I send
you two specimens from hence. The one is by our friend of whom I have
just spoken. You will see that it contains the essential principles of
ours, accommodated as much as could be, to the actual state of things
here. The other is from a very sensible man,. a pure theorist, of the
sect called the economists, of which Turgot was considered as the
head. The former is adapted to the existing abuses, the latter goes to
those possible, as well as to those existing.
to James Madison, 12 January 1789
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