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→Quotes: Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
* "Every Constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer it is an act of force and not of right." - Letter to James Madison, 1789<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=p6o-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA175 The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including All of His Important Utterances on Public Questions, Compiled from State Papers and from His Private Correspondence]</ref>
* "Every Constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer it is an act of force and not of right." - Letter to James Madison, 1789<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=p6o-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA175 The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including All of His Important Utterances on Public Questions, Compiled from State Papers and from His Private Correspondence]</ref>
* "Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession for ever? I think not. the Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter, unendowed with will. the dead are not even things. the particles of matter which composed their bodies, make part now of the bodies of other animals, vegetables, or minerals of a thousand forms. to what then are attached the rights and power they held while in the form of men? a generation may bind itself, as long as it’s majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man." Letter to John Cartwright, June 5th, 1824<ref>[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-4313 From Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824]</ref>
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