Annotated Constitution (1900)
These pages reveal a copy of the Jefferson Society’s Constitution and By-Laws circa 1900, which additional annotations written in the surrounding margins. The preamble to the Constitution reads as follows:
“We, the members of the Jefferson Society of the University of Virginia, in order to form a more permanent organization, provide for our common improvement in debate, promote general culture amongst ourselves and those around us, and drill ourselves in all those exercises which strengthen the free duties of citizenship, do ordain and establish this Constitution for our government, and pledge ourselves to its support.”
