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We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.

Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.71, Modern Library
We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.