# A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments proposes to shrink Virginia's capital list and reform penalties

Date: 1779

## The fact

In the Virginia revisal Jefferson drafted a Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments that reduced capital offences and proposed alternatives. The Assembly did not pass the whole scheme. The instrument is that public draft. Later penitentiary statutes are not 1779 autograph. Thomas Jefferson's documented role is: He drafted for the revisal with Wythe and Pendleton. The Assembly did not enact the whole bill. Medium on unique later penal coefficients.

## Context

George Wythe and Edmund Pendleton share the revisal committee. Sharing that committee is required. Religious-freedom statute is another revisal fruit that did pass. The 1781 invasion interrupted legislative time. The setting of A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments proposes to shrink Virginia's capital list and reform penalties is the public file around 1779-06-18. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver justice-[judicial-independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion)-erosion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not call this the unique birth of American criminology. Beccaria is a named intellectual neighbour. Mixed effects of A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments proposes to shrink Virginia's capital list and reform penalties are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Founders Online — Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments at https://founders.archives.gov/ (National Archives / Founders Online). Independent locator: Britannica — Thomas Jefferson, legal revisal neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Jefferson (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Founders Online — Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments (https://founders.archives.gov/; National Archives / Founders Online). Independent carrier: Britannica — Thomas Jefferson, legal revisal neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Jefferson; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Founders Online — Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments (https://founders.archives.gov/; National Archives / Founders Online).

## Significance

Improving path from A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments proposes to shrink Virginia's capital list and reform penalties on 1779-06-18. A public draft that cuts capital crimes is a justice path of medium weight even when only partly received. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments proposes to shrink Virginia's capital list and reform penalties under 1779-06-18 for Thomas Jefferson. Established: a sourced public record of A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments proposes to shrink Virginia's capital list and reform penalties under 1779-06-18.

Shared responsibility is part of A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments proposes to shrink Virginia's capital list and reform penalties. Naming Thomas Jefferson does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1779-06-18 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Thomas Jefferson: https://factrail.ai/people/thomas-jefferson

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://founders.archives.gov/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Jefferson

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tj-crime-bill