Yet he was an advocate of states' rights and he opposed the kind of centralized power that would be required to end slavery by legal action. ... Jefferson also opposed the omitting of the "Bill of Rights" (pg. 429). Jefferson believed that a bill of rights was what the people were entitled to against every government on earth. And Jefferson believed that "no just government should refuse" (pg. 430), a bill of rights. ... The Bill of Rights is the first Ten Amendments to the U.S. ...

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