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The Commoner. APHIL 8, 1910 11 quell a riot somewhere In his county. The federal judge Is by the general law a part of the posse of the state sheriff. Would the judge abandon major duties to perform lesser ones? Agalh : The court of Orleans or Maine commands by subpoenas the attendance of all the judges of the supremo court. Would they abandon their posts as judges, and the inter ests of millions committed to them, to serve the purpose of a single in dividual? The leading principle of our constitution is the independence of the legislature, executive and ju diciary, of each other, and none are more jealous of this than the judi ciary. But would the executive be independent of the judiciary if he were subject to the commands of the latter, and to imprisonment for dis obedience, if the several courts could bandy him from pillar to post, keep him constantly trudging from north to south and east to west, and with draw him entirely from his consti tutional duties?" A striking exemplification of the force of this argument, says Morse, would probably soon have been fur nished had not Burr escaped from a trial in Ohio by forfeiting his bonds and fleelmr abroad. For the nresi- dent would surely have been sum moned to that trial also, and if ho had obeyed the summons would have been kept far from the seat of gov ernment, in a then very inaccessible region, at the moment when his presence was of exceptional impor tance at the capital. But the deci sion of Chief Justice Marshall was disregarded by the president and nothing more came of it, although the federalists used his conduct as a further support of their accusations of tyranny and injustice. While no modern court or investi gating body, save that of impeach ment, is likely to summon a presi dent, it is interesting to note that it has been done, that a great legal authority defended the right of the court in that respect and that it raised the question oT the indepen dence of the three branches of the government. It is still a very nice question for the lawyers. Henry Barrett Chamberlin in the Chicago Record-Herald. Chronology of Thomas Jefferson Born at Shadwell, Albemarle county, Va.f April 13, 1743; death of his father, Peter Jefferson, August 17, 1757; entered William and Mary College, March, 1760; graduation, April 25, 1762; entered law office of George Wythe, April, 1762; admit ted -to bar, 1767; elected to Virginia house of Burgesses, March, 1769; marriage to Martha Wayles Skelton,, January, 1772; birth of his first daughter, Martha, September 27, 1772; appointed surveyor of Albe marle .county, October, 1773; birth of second daughter, Jane Randolph, April 3, 1774; elected deputy to con tinental congress, March, 1775; at tends continental congress Juno 21, 1775; death of his mother March 31, 1776; appointed on committee to prepare Declaration of Independence, June 11, 1776; draft of Declaration reported, June 28, 1776; elected commissioner to France, September, 26; 1776; attends Virginia assembly, October, 1776; appointed on commit tee to revise Virginia laws, Novem ber 6, 1776; birth of son, May 28, 1777; death of son, June 14, 1777; birth of third daughter, Mary, Aug ust' 1, 1778; elected governor of Virginia, June 1, 1780; re-elected governor of Virginia, November, June 1, 1780; fourth daughter born, November 3, 1780; resigns gover norship, June 1, 1781; assembly or ders investigation of his administra tion, June 5, 1781; appointed peace commissioner by continental con gress, June 14, 1781; appointment declined, June 30, 1781; atterids Vir ginia assembly, November 5, 1781; committee appointed to state charges against him, November 26, 1781; elected delegate to congress, Novem ber 30, 1781; voted thanks of assem bly, December 12, 1782; daughter, Lucy Elizabeth, born, May 8, 1782; death of Mrs. Jefferson, September 6, 1782; appointed peace commis sioner to Europe, November 12, 1782; appointment withdrawn, April 1, 1783; elected delegate to con gress, June 6, 1783; elected chair man of congress, March 12, 1784; elected minister to France, May 7, 1784; arrived in Paris, August 6, 1784; elected French minister by congress, March 10, 1785; audience of French court. May 17, 1785; death of youngest daughter, Lucy, November, 1785; presented to George III at Windsor, March 22, 1786; made an LL. D. by Yale, Oc tober, 1786; made an LL. D. by Harvard, June, 1788; prepares charter for France, June 3, 1789; nominated to be secretary of state, September 25, 1789; confirmed by senate, September 26, 1789; leaves France, October, 1789; at Mon ticello, December 24, ' 1789; ac cepts secretaryship of state Feb ruary 13. 1790; marriage of daughter Martha to Thomas Mann Randolph, February 28, 1790; writes to Washington of intention to resign from cabinet, May 23, 1792; reconsiders resignation, Jan uary, 1793; offered French mission, February, 1793; resigns secretary ship of state, December 31, 1793; offered foreign mission, September, 1794; elected vice president, Novem ber 4, 1796; elected president of Philosophical Society, January, 1797; takes oath of office as vice president, March March 4, 1797; marriage of Mary Jefferson to John Waynes Eppes, October 13, 1797; writes essay on study of Anglo-Saxon, Octo ber, 1798; drafts Kentucky resolu tions, October, 1798; revises Madi son's Virginia resolutions, November, 1798; plans University of Virginia, January 18, 1800; prepares parlia mentary manual, February, 1800; republican caucus nominates Jeffer son and Burr, May, 1800; congress begins to ballot for president, Feb ruary 11, 1801; elected president, February 17, 1801; farewell address to senate, February 28, 1801; in auguration as president, March 4, 1801; Louisiana treaty signed at Paris, May 2, 1803; Louisiana treaty ratified, October 20, 1803; message on taking possession of Louisiana, January 18, 1804; re elected president of United States, November, 18ff4; elected president of American Philosophical Society, January, 1807; signs bill to end slave trade, March 2, 1807; proposes to seize the Floridas, September 1, 1807; embargo act signed, December 22, 1807; repeal of embargo signed, March 1, 1809; retires from presi dency, March 4, 1809; arrives at Monticello, March 17, 1809; resigns presidency of American Philosophi cal Society, November, 1814; con gress passes bill to buy library, Jan uary, 1815; drafts Virginia protest, December 1825'; executes will, March 16, 1826; declines invitation to Fourth of July celebration In Wash ington, June 24, 1826; writes last letter, June 25, 1826; death, July 4, 1826. 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