Thomas Jefferson on a necessity for excellence of government

    Thomas Jefferson contended:

Every people have their own particular habits, ways of thinking, manners, etc., which have grown up with them from their infancy, are become a part of their nature, and to which the regulations which are to make them happy must be accommodated. . . . The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. (Quoted on page 194 of Pragmatism and Social Hope, by Judith M. Green. New York: Columbia University Press. 2008.)
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