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By Thomas Jefferson
The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution.
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- Letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787 · The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 11, pp. 48-50
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- Founders Online, National Archives
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A letter written from Paris, January 16, 1787, to Edward Carrington, after disturbances in America. Jefferson often began sentences with a lowercase letter and wrote & for and, and the Papers keep that.