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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Thomas Jefferson ended the tradition of delivering a State of the Union speech, and instead sent it to Congress by letter.

杰佛逊结束了发表国情咨文讲话的传统，反而将咨文用信件的方式呈送给国会。

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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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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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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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The English swept through in the early 18th century, but the Spanish held on long enough to be euchred out of the state by a succession of American presidents, starting with the wily Thomas Jefferson, who were determined to have the Floridas, as they were called, which had fallen outside the Louisiana Purchase.

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