...contemplation a further object; It was to impart to the wards or Townships those portions of self government for which they are best qualified, "by confiding to...the nomination of jurors, administration of justice w small canes, elementary exercise of r>.iii ' r. ; in short, to have made them little rei ublics with...

...completely prepared by education for defeating the competition of wealth and birth for public trusts. My proposition had, for a further object, to impart...justice in small cases, elementary exercises of militia ; iu short, to have made them little republics, with a warden at the head of each, for all those concerns...

...completely prepared, by education, for defeating the competition of wealth and birth for public trusts. My proposition had, for a further object, to impart...confiding to them the care of their poor, their roads, public elections, police elections, the nomination of jurors, administration of justice in small cases,...

...author, had his system been carried into operation, to have imparted to the wards or hundreds, all those portions of self-government, for which they...jurors, administration of justice in small cases, and elementary exercises of militia ; in short, to have made them little republics, with a warden at...

...wealth and birth for public trusts. My proposition had, for a further object, to impart to these warxfc those portions of self-government for which they are...exercises of militia ; in short, to have made them VOL. VI. 15 little republics, with a warden at the head of each, for all those concerns which, being...

...completely prepared by education for defeating the competition of wealth and birth for public trusts. My proposition had, for a further object, to impart...exercises of militia ; in short, to have made them VOL. VI. 15 little republics, with a warden at the head of each, for all those concerns which, being...

...expressed a sounder reason : The article, however, nearest my heart is the division of counties into wards. Impart to these wards those portions of self-government...militia, in short, to have made them little republics. For historical reasons, Jefferson's viewpoint has been subordinated for decades. Certain great national...

...decentralization. With that given, he proposed dividing counties into wards of five or six square miles and "to impart to these wards those portions of selfgovernment...of their poor, their roads, police, elections, the nominations of jurors, administration of justice in small cases, elementary exercises of militia" (see...

...are contained in "The Letter to John Adams, October 28, 1813," Peterson, Jefferson Writings, p. 1308. Impart to these wards those portions of self-government...by confiding to them the care of their poor, their road, police, elections, the nomination of jurors, administration of justice in small cases, elementary...

...proposed to divide every county into wards of five or six miles square, like your townships; . . . My proposition had, for a further object, to impart...are best qualified, by confiding to them the care of the poor, their roads, police, elections, the nomination of jurors, administration of justice in small...