The Return of the Jeffersonian Vision and the Rejection of Progressivism — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

Interesting:

The Return of the Jeffersonian Vision and the Rejection of Progressivism — The American, A Magazine of Ideas: "“No person shall…be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” So reads a portion of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights passed by the First Congress and ratified by state legislatures, sponsored originally by Thomas Jefferson’s friend and political ally James Madison. It echoed, of course, Jefferson’s words in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”"