The writings of Thomas Jefferson
by Thomas Jefferson · first published 1853
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Limited letterpress edition. Number 237 of 750. Volume X
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…before is really, really goofy and it is crazy that we award the first person who happens to legally file such ideas a nearly 2 decade monopoly on them. It wasn't supposed to be like this. Read the writings of Thomas Jefferson who very clearly had a much higher bar in mind for awards of patentability than the rubber-stamping we do today: http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-06-02-03... http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-00...…
on “Brave New Phone Call” ↗…bill so as to commit to the Governor and Council the management of all our farms, our mills, and merchants' stores." Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Cabell, Feb. 2, 1816, reprinted in Political Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1955), page 98 and in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Memorial Edition 1904), volume 14, pages 420-21. In other words, it is as ridiculous to have governments, especially governments of broad territorial…
on “The Death Of Bundling In University Education?” ↗…conveniences, as was intended, would most fearfully abridge them, and crowd us by monopolies out of the use of the things we have." - Letter to Oliver Evans, (16 January 1814); published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1905) Vol. 13, p. 66.
on “Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet” ↗…against the will of the father. What is proposed here is to remove the objection of expense, by offering education gratis . . ." Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Cabell, September 9, 1817, reprinted in Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Memorial Edition 1904) volume 17, page 423. http://learninfreedom.org/Founders_free.html
on “The Uneducated American” ↗…of church and state.” It’s about regulating or creating established state churches—I.e., establishments of religion. The concept of “separation of church and state” is much broader, and comes from the writings of Thomas Jefferson—who admired revolutionary France and its secularism. But it has nothing to do with either the Constitution or the First Amendment. If we are picking random quotes from founding fathers, you could reach…
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