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world as honest, masculine, and dignified. It has shown genuine dignity,
in my opinion, in exploding adulatory titles; they are the offerings of
abject baseness, and nourish that degrading vice in the people.

I must now say a word on the declaration of rights, you have been so
good as to send me. I like it, as far as it goes; but I should have been
for going further. For instance, the following alterations and additions
would have pleased me. Article 4. The people shall not be deprived of
their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish any thing
but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty, property, or
reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the confederacy
with foreign nations. Article 7. All facts put in issue before any
judicature, shall be tried by jury, except, 1. in cases of admiralty
jurisdiction, wherein a foreigner shall be interested; 2. in cases
cognizable before a court martial, concerning only the regular-officers
and soldiers of the United States, or members of the militia in actual
service in time of war or insurrection; and 3. in impeachments allowed
by the constitution. Article 8. No person shall be held in confinement
more than ------ days after he shall have demanded and been refused
a writ of habeas corpus by the judge appointed by law, nor more than
------ days after such a writ shall have been served on the person
holding him in confinement, and no order given on due examination for
his remandment or discharge, nor more than ------ hours in any place at
a greater distance than ------ miles from the usual residence of some
judge authorized to issue the writ of habeas corpus; nor shall that writ
be suspended for any term exceeding one year, nor in any place more
than ------ miles distant from the State or encampment of enemies or of
insurgents. Article 9. Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their
own productions in literature, and their own inventions in the arts, for
a term not exceeding ------ years, but for no longer term, and no other
purpose. Article 10. All troops of the United States shall stand _ipso
facto_ disbanded, at the expiration of the term for which their pay and
subsistence shall have been last voted by Congress, and all officers
and soldiers, not natives of the United States, shall be incapable of
serving in their armies by land, except during a foreign war. These
restrictions I think are so guarded, as to hinder evil only. However,