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6818. POWER, Depositaries of.—[continued].
I know no safe depositary
of the ultimate powers of the society
but the people themselves; and if we
think them not enlightened enough to exercise
their control with a wholesome discretion,
the remedy is not to take it from them,
but to inform their discretion by education.—
To William C. Jarvis. Washington ed. vii, 179.
Ford ed., x, 161.
(M.
1820)
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