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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN & GAETANO FILANGIERI:
Founding Father Benjamin Franklin shared a correspondence and exchanged books with Gaetano Filangieri, an Enlightement Neopolitan political philosopher whose "Science of Legislation" (1780 to 1785) was read by Franklin in the years before the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written. Franklin also ordered from Filangieri several copies of the multi-volume work, which was widely read throughout Europe."The Science of Legislation" was among the earliest works on constitutional law and government. It presented an enlightened code of justice that was based on reason and that did not favor royalty and the wealthy. Filangieri called for equal justice for all citizens, proportionality between crime and punishment, freedom of the press, universal public education and unlimited free trade. Franklin praised Filangieri for his "invaluable work." Many of the ideas championed in "The Science of Legislation" are found in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.The exhibition will present a first edition of "The Science of Legislation" and reproductions of correspondences between Franklin and Filangieri.______________________________________________
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.FILIPPO MAZZEI & THOMAS JEFFERSON:
Filippo Mazzei, a Florentine surgeon, horticulturist and merchant, was the neighbor of Thomas Jefferson beginning in 1774. Mazzei, who moved to America to develop vineyards and olive groves, became an ardent supporter of American independence and worked with the citizens of Albemarle County - where he and Jefferson lived - to establish a constitution for Virginia.In other writings, Mazzei authored the phrase, "All men are by nature equally free and independent." In his book, "A Nation of Immigrants," John F. Kennedy noted, "The great doctrine ‘All men are created equal,’ incorporated in the Declaration [of Independence] by Thomas Jefferson, was paraphrased from the writing of Philip Mazzei, an Italian-born patriot and pamphleteer, who was a close friend of Jefferson." And according to Joint Resolution 175 of the 103rd Congress, "the phrase in the Declaration of Independence ..All men are created equal', was suggested by the Italian patriot and immigrant Philip Mazzei."Mazzei, who was imprisoned by the British during the Revolution and who later returned to Europe to act on America’s behalf, wrote the four-volume "Historical and Political Studies of the Northern United States of America" (1788). The work was the first history of the American Revolution published in France, where it was read as a balanced accounting of the country’s battle for independence and as a rebuttal to anti-American propaganda coming out of England. A first edition of Mazzei’s seminal book will be exhibited.______________________________________________
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