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"Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution" What did Thomas Jefferson mean when he wrote that?
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"Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the

chains of the Constitution" What did Thomas Jefferson mean when he wrote that?

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Free government is founded in jealousy, not confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind those we are obliged to trust with power…In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief with the Chains of the Constitution.

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