Note 132 — b. An Association against the Stamp Act in a Virginia County, 1766 (continued 2)

Jefferson's plan was indorsed. " ... It is proposed that this bill, after correction by the Convention, shall be referred by them to the people, to be assembled in their respective counties; and that the suffrages of two-thirds the counties shall be necessary to establish it." Jefferson always contended that the Virginia constitution, since it was not so submitted to popular ratification, was not a "fundamental law," but was subject to repeal, like any other statute, by ordinary legislative action. Cf. American History and Government, § 152.