"No, my friend, the way to have good and safe
government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing
to every one exactly the functions he is competent to. "It is by dividing and
subdividing these republics from the national one down through all its subordination's,
until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under every
one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best."
- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816
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