The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or f…

Thomas Jefferson
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The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798, p.461, Cosimo, Inc.
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