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All authority belongs to the people... in questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the constitution.
-Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
All authority belongs to the people... in questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the constitution.
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