A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.
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There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents for with these it would belong to the first class.
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Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.
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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
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No doubt President Jefferson was brilliant - probably the key author of the American constitution. But the PNP and Jamaica have our own Thomas Jefferson ... former leader and Premier Norman Washington Manley. Indeed Norman Washington Manley was better - note the word.
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