Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rig…

Thomas Jefferson
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Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). Jefferson: Political Writings, p.224, Cambridge University Press
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Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). Jefferson: Political Writings, p.224, Cambridge University Press

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