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Lafayette's draft declaration of rights (1789)

Lafayette's draft, which he presented to the National Assembly on 11 July 1789 after asking Jefferson for notes on it.

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Marquis de Lafayette 11 Jul 1789 Primary record 1
Lafayette presented a draft declaration of rights to the National Assembly on 11 July 1789.

Thomas Jefferson According to The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Primary record 1
The editors mean Lafayette's draft and the text he presented on 11 July 1789, not the Assembly's Declaration of 26 August.

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11 Jul 1789 Lafayette's draft declaration of rights (1789)
11 Jul 1789 Marquis de Lafayette authored Lafayette's draft declaration of rights (1789)

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Lafayette's Draft of a Declaration of Rights, June 1789 (Papers of Thomas Jefferson, with editorial note), National Archives, Founders Online, 1789. Primary record Archived copy
This text represents an intermediate state of Lafayette’s proposed declaration of rights between that transmitted by TJ to Madison on 12 Jan. 1789 and that presented by Lafayette to the National Assembly on 11 July 1789.
It is certain that TJ’s influence, though its extent cannot be fixed, is present in this text and in that finally presented

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