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A Statesman's Guide to Proper Lawmaking
Just ten years before Thomas Jefferson died and after many years of observing people in offices of political power, he commented: "Our legislators are not sufficiently apprised of the rightful limits of their powers...." He could have made the same observation in our day nearly two centuries later. Evidence is plentiful to show that when people are elected to public office and especially after they have been in office awhile, they begin to feel they have authority to do about anything they want as long as they can get enough votes to do it.
