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If I recall there was another quote kicking around at the time of Jefferson's quote highlighted by Mule..
It went along the lines of 'no taxation without representation..'
And I believe that this quote, along with jeffersons' was directed at the reality then of being a colony, when there was taxa tion yet the seemingly democratic British did not allow the 'Americans' to vote or have representation..
BTW at the time the regime that imposed this 'enlightened' view on American was what we would label a 'conservative' regime today.
Taken in its contemporary context the quote takes on a very differnet meaning than that implied by Mule in his abstraction....
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