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[The year was 1784. The John Jay Court had begun Judicial supremacy and sovereign immunity. Barely had the ink dried on the Consitution, and "Obiter Dictum" removed from the citizenry the opportunity for juries to judge the law. Jefferson had to be angry. By the time of his Presidency, he declared the need for "the blood of patriots" to fertilize the "Tree of Liberty." His prediction describes our nation
as it now wallows in gun control, pharmaceutical tyranny, CAFTA, and millions of illegal aliens.]
THOMAS JEFFERSON'S PREDICTION
FOR
AMERICA'S FUTURE
Our rulers will become corrupt our People careless . The time for
fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers
are honest and ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war,
we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort
every moment to the People for support. They will be forgotten,
therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget
themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never
think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The
shackles, therefore, which will not be knocked off at the conclusion
of the war, will remain on as long, will be made heavier and
heavier, til our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion. The
people will be taxed for fifteen-sixteenths of their production.
They will themselves pay the wages for those who place the shackles
upon their own hands and feet.
-Thomas Jefferson, excerpted from "COMMENTS AND NOTES TO THE STATE OF VIRGINIA,", QUORY 17, PAGE 10, 1784
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