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Jefferson defined both the purpose of government and the source of its authority: “To secure these rights… deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” In a single document, Jefferson reframed the relationship between the individual and the state, placing

Jefferson began the Declaration not with grievances, but with a pronouncement of truth: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are create equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain Unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the

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