Extract from Thomas Jefferson to the Tammany Society of Washington

March 2. 1809.

aware of the tendency of power to degenerate into abuse, the worthies of our own country have secured it’s independence by the establishment of a constitution & form of Government for our nation calculated to prevent as well as to correct abuse.

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