academic boundaries in its effort to illuminate the philoso-
phy of democracy in a significant historical context. It in no
way substitutes for conscientious and full-length biographies
of Jefferson and Madison, nor they for it. The present gen-
eration will be given two rounded and detailed biographies,
one of Jefferson by Dumas Malone and one of Madison by
Irving Brant. But their work is clearly different from a study
of the unique relationship of Jefferson and Madison in for-
mulating the principles of democracy and in attempting to
realize their ideals.

The material for this interpretation of Jefferson and
Madison comes largely from research in the primary
sources. The great historical undertaking now in progress
at Princeton, the editing of The Papers of Thomas Jeffer-
son, will in time make it obvious that close investigation of
a vast body of manuscripts is essential for any genuine study
of the philosophy and career of Jefferson, not in the inter-
est of a cult of antiquarianism or out of some special pose
of historic purism, but for a more authentic presentation of
the American political tradition. It was necessary, even for
the limited purposes of this study, to delve deeply into the
manuscript collections of Jefferson and Madison in the Li-
brary of Congress, and to fill in important gaps by consult-
ing photostats at Princeton of other manuscripts.

It was natural that this extensive research into unpub-
lished primary sources should yield significant new facts.
Some of the new information provides missing links in
otherwise imperfectly known episodes. My account of "The
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions," for example, embod-
ies several discoveries that permit a more accurate version
of the crucial roles played by Jefferson and Madison. An-
other example is the account of their detailed collaboration
on the University of Virginia--a relationship that has not

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