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George Wythe, lawyer, revolutionary, judge

Regrets that Wythe is not better known, since the better we know him and his close relationship with TJ, the better, too, we would understand Jefferson. Wythe the revolutionary wished to establish an American jurisprudence within the framework of the English common law, and with TJ and Edmund Pendleton proposed a drastic, simplified redrafting of Virginia statutory law. -- Frank Shuffelton.

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