| Public papers and addresses | |
| A summary view of the rights of British America (1774) | p. 3 |
| A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled (with Jefferson's original draft and congressional amendments) (1776) | p. 18 |
| The Declaration of Independence (as adopted by Congress) (1776) | p. 23 |
| A bill for establishing religious freedom (1777) | p. 27 |
| Report on government for western territory (1784) | p. 29 |
| Opinion on the constitutionality of a national bank (1791) | p. 32 |
| Opinion on the French treaties (1793) | p. 37 |
| Draft of the Kentucky resolutions (1798) | p. 48 |
| First inaugural address (1801) | p. 55 |
| To messrs. Nehemiah Dodge and others, a committee of the Danbury Baptist Association, in the state of Connecticut (1802) | p. 59 |
| Second inaugural address (1805) | p. 60 |
| Report of the commissioners for the University of Virginia (1818) | p. 65 |
| Excerpts from Notes on Virginia (1782) | |
| Query VI (a quarrel with Buffon : the new world is not inferior) | p. 79 |
| Query VIII (should America encourage immigration?) | p. 89 |
| Query XI (a description of the Indians) | p. 94 |
| Query XIII (the Virginian constitution) | p. 98 |
| Query XIV (the laws of Virginia : slavery, the natural endowments of the black race, education) | p. 109 |
| Query XVII (religious freedom) | p. 125 |
| Query XVIII (the effect of slavery on manners) | p. 130 |
| Query XIX (agrarian virtue) | p. 132 |
| Query XXII (commerce, shipping, and self-defense) | p. 134 |
| Correspondence | |
| To Edmund Pendleton, Aug. 26, 1776 (early views on constitutionalism) | p. 141 |
| To David Rittenhouse, July 19, 1778 (an obligation higher than politics) | p. 143 |
| To John Jay, Aug. 23, 1785 (a preference for sailors over manufacturers) | p. 146 |
| To Charles Bellini, Sept. 30, 1785 (French and American morals) | p. 148 |
| To John Banister, Jr., Oct. 15, 1785 (the disadvantage of study abroad) | p. 150 |
| To James Madison, Oct. 28, 1785 (a "fundamental right to labor") | p. 153 |
| To James Madison, Jan. 30, 1787 (Shays's rebellion and western secession) | p. 155 |
| To Anne Willing Bingham, Feb. 7, 1787 ("the tranquil pleasures" of American society) | p. 159 |
| To Peter Carr, Aug. 10, 1787 (the moral sense) | p. 161 |
| To William S. Smith, Nov. 13, 1787 ("the tree of liberty") | p. 166 |
| To James Madison, Dec. 20, 1787 (objections to the Constitution) | p. 168 |
| To Francis Hopkinson, Mar. 13, 1789 (party : "the last degradation of a free and moral agent") | p. 172 |
| To James Madison, Mar. 15, 1789 (a bill of rights) | p. 174 |
| To James Madison, Sept. 6, 1789 ("the earth belongs to the living") | p. 176 |
| To Benjamin Banneker, Aug. 30, 1791 (equality and "our black brethren") | p. 181 |
| To the President of the United States (George Washington), Sept. 9, 1792 (the conflict with Alexander Hamilton) | p. 182 |
| To Elbridge Gerry, Jan. 26, 1799 ("a profession of my political faith") | p. 190 |
| To William Green Munford, June 18, 1799 (progress and perfectibility) | p. 193 |
| To Dr. Joseph Priestley, Mar. 21, 1801 (something new under the sun) | p. 196 |
| To the U.S. Minister to France (Robert Livingston), Apr. 18, 1802 (the strategic importance of New Orleans) | p. 198 |
| To Benjamin Hawkins, Feb. 18, 1803 (a plan for civilizing Indians) | p. 201 |
| To Wilson Cary Nicholas, Sept. 7, 1803 (the Louisiana Purchase and constitutional amendments) | p. 203 |
| To Henri Gregoire, Feb. 25, 1809 (Negro equality and rights) | p. 205 |
| To John Tyler, May 26, 1810 (education and the wards) | p. 206 |
| To John B. Colvin, Sept. 20, 1810 (the "law of necessity and self-preservation") | p. 208 |
| To John Adams, June 15, 1813 (an airing of our political differences) | p. 211 |
| To John Adams, Oct. 28, 1813 (the natural aristocracy) | p. 214 |
| To J. Correa de Serra, Apr. 19, 1814 (happiness and virtue) | p. 220 |
| To Thomas Law, June 13, 1814 (the moral sense) | p. 222 |
| To Joseph C. Cabell, Feb. 2, 1816 ("divide the counties into wards") | p. 226 |
| To P. S. Dupont de Nemours, Apr. 24, 1816 (the moral principles on which government is founded) | p. 229 |
| To John Taylor, May 28, 1816 (what is a republic?) | p. 233 |
| To Francis W. Gilmer, June 7, 1816 (the sense of justice is natural to man) | p. 237 |
| To Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816 (how to reform the Virginian constitution) | p. 239 |
| To Isaac H. Tiffany, Aug. 26, 1816 ("this new principle of representative democracy") | p. 246 |
| To Nathaniel Burwell, Mar. 14, 1818 (ideas on female education) | p. 247 |
| To Judge Spencer Roane, Sept. 6, 1819 (constitutional construction) | p. 250 |
| To John Holmes, April 22, 1820 ("a fire bell in the night") | p. 254 |
| To Jared Sparks, Feb. 4, 1824 (a plan for emancipation) | p. 256 |
| To Major John Cartwright, June 5, 1824 (the lessons of experience; Christianity and the common law) | p. 260 |
| To Henry Lee, May 8, 1825 ("the object of the Declaration of Independence") | p. 267 |
| To William Branch Giles, Dec. 26, 1825 (resistance to consolidation) | p. 269 |
| To James Madison, Feb. 17, 1826 ("take care of me when dead") | p. 273 |
| To Roger C. Weightman, June 24, 1826 (last thoughts on the Declaration of Independence) | p. 277 |
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