Thomas Jefferson: Second Inaugural Address

Glossary

• aboriginal native
• acted up lived up
• advances we have made debts we have incurred
• anti-philosophers opponents of thinking and reason
• candid apprehension honest fear
• commonwealth: a state formed by the agreement of the people and for their common good
• extinguish the native right of soil remove the Indians
• federative referring to a federal system of government, in which states exercise a degree of independence on some issues yet submit to the rule of a central authority on matters of national importance
• reduced within limits too narrow for the hunter’s state forced to occupy an area of land too small to sustain their survival by hunting
• salutary coercions beneficial applications of force or power