"I know no safe depository of the ultimate
powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not
enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the
remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by
education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to William
Charles Jarvis, 1820
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