One more, for the children

[drwex]

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

-- Thomas Jefferson, 28 September, 1820, letter to William C. Jarvis

Comments

[dpolicar]

The irony of this, to me, is that we still express the same sentiment, but our understanding of "the people" has changed radically.

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

seconded!