It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their…

Thomas Jefferson
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It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson, p.66
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