Creating the United States

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Jefferson Continues Call for a Bill of Rights

Jefferson Continues Call for a Bill of Rights

Transcription

“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in a majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of constituents.”

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