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"Were [a right] to be refused, or to be so shackled by regulations, not necessary for... peace and safety... as to render its use impracticable,... it would then be an injury, of which we should be entitled to demand redress."
--Thomas Jefferson: Report on Navigation of the Mississippi, 1792. ME 3:178

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"[The first step is] to concur in a declaration of rights, at least, so that the nation may be acknowledged to have some fundamental rights not alterable by their ordinary legislature, and that this may form a ground work for future improvements."
--Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1788. ME 7:18, Papers 13:190