• Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    They wouldn’t even remotely be surprised. They knew this type of shit was inevitable, and that any generation under any system would have to face the ever-present threat of tyrants.

    Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right.

    -Thomas Jefferson

    The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

    -George Washington

    [The Constitution founded a] Republic, if you can keep it.

    Benjamin Franklin