Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Jefferson's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Jefferson and Two Treatises of Government
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to Two Treatises of Government.
Thomas Jefferson is attested as having owned this work by John Locke.
Evidence ledger
- Sowerby's catalogue of Jefferson's library, the standard scholarly reference for its contents, documents that Jefferson's 1815 sale to the Library of Congress included Locke's Two Treatises of Government.
Concepts moved from this book
- Absorbed -> Social contract