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 Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated.
Thomas Jefferson is attested as having read this work by John Taylor.
Evidence ledger
- First-person reading testimony (Explicit first-person completed reading: 'I have read Colonel Taylor's book of "Constructions Construed," with great satisfaction.' Title and author in-passage; proposed as a new Work (distinct from Taylor's Enquiry).). Self-report reliability discount 0.75: Explicit completed reading 'with great satisfaction, and, I will say, with edification', but produced FOR PUBLICATION at the request of Roane and Taylor - endorsement-on-demand motivates warmth; strengthened by the documented intention-to-completion arc (declared Dec 1820, idx 1508; completed by June 1821).