The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the pu…

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The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). Jefferson: Political Writings, p.27, Cambridge University Press
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