In 1779, as Virginia's governor, Thomas Jefferson had drafted a bill that guaranteed legal equality for citizens of all religions-including those of no religion-in the state.

到1779年，托马斯·杰弗逊出任佛吉尼亚州州长，他起草了一份法案用以保障该州所有宗教信仰人士(包括无宗教信仰人士)在法律面前的平等权利。

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While the other members of the committee sat in the state Capitol and studied papers on the subject, Jefferson got into a canoe and made on-the-spot-observations.

委员会的其他成员都坐在州议会大厦内研究有关这一问题的文件，而杰斐逊却跳进一只独木舟去做现场观测。

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While the other members of the committee sat in the state Capitol and studied papers on the subject, Jefferson got into a canoe and made on-the-spot-observations.

委员会的其他成员都坐在州议会大厦内，研究有关这一问题的文件，而杰斐逊却跳进一只独木舟去做现场观测。

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President Washington and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson selected a later version of Mister Thornton's design for the Capitol.

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Hector Davis owned a two-story slave auction house and jail on 14th and Franklin Streets, just two blocks down the hill from Thomas Jefferson's glorious capitol building of the State of Virginia.

赫克托·戴维斯,在第十四和富兰克林大街,拥有一栋两层的奴隶拍卖行及监狱,仅仅距离托马斯·杰斐逊,那雄伟的弗吉尼亚州议会大厦,向山下两个街区远

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In seventeen eighty-eight, Thomas Jefferson wrote about his home state,Virginia.

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There is currently a movement afoot for part of northern California and southern Oregon to secede from their states and form the state of Jefferson.

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On Thursday, the police chief who initially investigated the case, before the Jefferson County prosecutor asked state officials to step in, said he doesn't expect much additional evidence to surface in the case.

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When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British.

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