It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means…

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It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1861). Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state, p.579
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It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1861). Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state, p.579

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