Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. ✨ Thomas Je…

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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private, p.32, Cambridge University Press
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