"Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that……" — Thomas Sowell
"Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the three branches of the national government but also separated as between the whole national government, on the one hand, and the states and the people on the other."
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Thomas Sowell
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