Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s “A Summary View of the Rights of British America”

can any one reason be assigned why 160,000 electors in the island of Great Britain should give law to four millions in the states of America

MS (DLC); in hand of Anderson Bryan, with additions and corrections by TJ. Published in PTJ, 1:121–37.
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