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A Summary of the Rights of British America Set Forth in Some Resolutions Intended for the Inspection of the Present Delegates of the People of Virginia Now in Convention

Thomas Jefferson

2013

Abstract

The following piece was intended to convey to the late meeting of Delegates the sentiments of one of their body, whole personal attendance was prevented by an accidental illness. In it the sources of our present unhappy differences are traced with such faithful accuracy, and the opinions entertained by every free American expressed with such a manly firmness, that it must be pleading to the present, and must be useful to future ages.

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