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 Social contract
How Thomas Jefferson's reading engaged the concept of Social contract.
This page traces how Thomas Jefferson's reading connects to the shared concept Social contract.
Evidence ledger
- Absorbed (confidence 0.85): 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. (from Two Treatises of Government)
This page links to the shared public concept Social contract without overwriting it -- the public Inferpedia page for that concept is untouched.