We may say with truth and meaning that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the element of popular election and control in their composition. (Thomas Jefferson)

We may say with truth and meaning that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the element of popular election and control in their composition.

Thomas Jefferson

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