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That is "domestic faction and insurrection." You can find "domestic insurrection in papers 25 and 26. In paper 25 the phrase clearly refers to Shay's Rebellion, which wasn't a slave revolt.

As Shay's Rebellion was a decade after the Declaration of Independence, the earlier drafts could not possibly be referring to it as "domestic insurrection."

Jefferson must necessarily be referring to something that happened before he started his draft.

444 posted on 12/11/2017 3:49:08 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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As Shay's Rebellion was a decade after the Declaration of Independence, the earlier drafts could not possibly be referring to it as "domestic insurrection."

We are talking about the Federalist Papers, which appeared over a decade after the Declaration of Independence.

The question was what people in the late 18th century understood by the term "domestic insurrection."

In what circumstances would they use the phrase?

That would provide a clue as to how people understood the phrase when they read it in the Declaration.

Whatever private meanings phrases may have had in Jefferson's mind can't be recovered and probably don't matter.

Go back under your rock and ponder.

445 posted on 12/11/2017 3:55:29 PM PST by x
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