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Thomas Jefferson, in an 1816 letter to a member of the Virginia General Assembly, made this observation: “If a nation…
The Constitution was designed to give government only a limited range of powers. Yet, government, today, wields a seemingly endless measure…
In a 1789 letter to the British philosopher Richard Price, Thomas Jefferson observed that “wherever the people are well informed…
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor has emerged as the Supreme Court’s most outspoken secularist. She subscribes fervently to the left’s myths about…
