"It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected."
— Thomas Jefferson

January 1, 1970

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Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1829) edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph, p. 70