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"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?"--Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 18, 1781

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