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7119. PUBLICITY, Preservation of order and.—

The way to prevent these [408] irregular
interpositions of the people is to give
them full information of their affairs through
the channel of the public papers, and to contrive
that those papers should penetrate the
whole mass of the people.—
To Edward Carrington. Washington ed. ii, 99. Ford ed., iv, 359.
(P. 1787)

 
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Jefferson was discussing Shays's rebellion.—Editor.