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3480. GOVERNMENT, Changing.—

Prudence,
indeed, will dictate that governments
long established, should not be changed for
light and transient causes; and, accordingly,
all experience hath shown, that mankind are
more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed.—
Declaration of Independence as Drawn by Jefferson.