If, then, the control of the people
over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I
confess I know no other measure, it must be agreed that our governments have
much less of republicanism than ought to have been expected; in other words,
that the people have less regular control over their agents, than their rights
and their interests require.
. . . Thomas Jefferson
Letter to John Taylor
1816
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