Thomas Jefferson Quote

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.


Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers (ed. 1829)


We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding...

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding...

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding...

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding...