The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson
By Subject
INDEPENDENCE AND SOVEREIGNTY
The proposal to establish a new] form of government... is a work of
the most interesting nature, and such as every individual would wish
to have his voice in... Should a bad government be instituted for us
in future, it had been as well to have accepted at first the bad one
offered to us from beyond the water without the risk and expense of
contest.
to Thomas Nelson, 1776
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