In a letter to Republican (constitutionalist) Delegate Charles Yancey, Republican former President Jefferson writes, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
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References:
Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816
founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-09-02-0209
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