Our Legislators Are Not Sufficiently Apprized Of The Rightful Limits Of Their Powe

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Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of
their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our
natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.
-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 1816

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