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Elective Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which…
- Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
- The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and…
- If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective,…
- I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,…
- An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
More Elective Quotes
- I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights. — Thomas Jefferson
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- An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles,… — Thomas Jefferson
- The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by… — Thomas Jefferson