[I]t is not by the consolidation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good government is effected. Were not this great country already divided into states, that division must be made, that each might do for itself what concerns itself directly, and what it can so much better do than a distant authority.
Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821
Founder’s Quote · September 9, 2014
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