No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs alwa…

Thomas Jefferson
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No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). Jefferson: Political Writings, p.596, Cambridge University Press
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