...and a corresponding amendment of the constitution, be applied, in time of peace, to rivers, canals, arts, manufactures, education, and other great objects...time of war, if injustice by ourselves or others must sometimes produce war, increased as the same revenue will be by increased population and consumption,...

...among the states, and a corresponding amendment of the constitution," to apply the liberated revenue to "rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education, and other great objects within each state." His hope was to preserve the impost, partly to protect American manufactures and partly to keep the...

...Second Inaugural Address, he suggested for the first time that federal funds be applied in the future "to rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education, and other great objects within each state."68 On the basis of this passage, many historians have rushed to the conclusion that Jefferson...

...roads. In his second inaugural address, Jefferson recommended that surplus revenue should "be applied to rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education, and other great objects within each state." Following his suggestion, Congress, in March, 1806, authorized the construction of a National Turnpike....

...million.1 And then he proposed that "the revenue thus liberated may, by a just repartition of [the surplus] among the States and a corresponding amendment of...education, and other great objects within each State." These noble goals were embodied in Jefferson's dream of what a great republican government owed its...

...government could, he postulated, distribute the revenue to the states where the money could, after... ...a corresponding amendment of the Constitution,...education, and other great objects within each State. Always in American politics militarism and governmental improvement projects have been bound tightly...

...was a tax and because it was in part deliberately protective, would be reduced. He announced instead: "Redemption once effected, the revenue thereby liberated...education, and other great objects within each State." Government would, in short, become an encourager and promoter of industry. No longer would it leave...

...thereby liberated [from paying off the national debt] may, by a just repartition among the states, and corresponding amendment of the constitution, be applied,...education, and other great objects within each state." Jefferson mentions a constitutional amendment, one allowing the national government to spend money...

...March 1 805, Jefferson urged the creation "in time of peace" of a nationally financed system involving "rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education, and other great objects within each State." The following year, in his sixth annual message, he again urged the adoption of such a program for...

...right of soil within our limits, to extend those limits, and to apply such a surplus to our public debts, as places at a short day their final redemption,...of war, if injustice, by ourselves or others, must sometimes produce war, increased as the same revenue will be increased by population and consumption,...