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By Thomas Jefferson
but I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. as that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
- Source
- Letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816 · The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 10
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- Founders Online, National Archives
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From Jefferson's letter of July 12, 1816 to Samuel Kercheval, in which he proposes changes to the Virginia constitution. Jefferson often began sentences with a lowercase letter and wrote & for and, and the Papers keep that.