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A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. - Thomas Jefferson
Attribution: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), U.S. president. Letter, December 20, 1787, to James Madison. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 12, p. 440, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (1950).

Categories: Bill Of Rights, Government, President

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