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Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1814). The Proceedings of the Government of the United States in Maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi, Adjacent to New-Orleans, Against the Intrusion of Edward Livingston, p.65
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