Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights . . . and to take none of them from us. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him . . . and the idea is quite unfounded, that on entering into society we give up any natural right. ~ Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Francis Gilmer (c.1816)
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:22:50 +0000
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