1To Thomas Jefferson from Pardon Davis, 9 September 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of submitting to you a plan for inculcating a knowledge of our constitutions embraced in the accompanying little work.—You are probably aware that the subject has hitherto been totally neglected in our common schools. — Being deeply impressed with the importance of perpetuating our rights, and finding no work calculated to define them, and familiarize them to our youths in...