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Corruption is better restrained by a wide right to vote than by limiting it to the wealthy
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- Thomas Jefferson Third US President (1743 to 1826)
It has been thought that corruption is restrained by confining the right of suffrage to a few of the wealthier of the people; but it would be more effectually restrained by an extension of that right to such numbers as would bid defiance to the means of corruption.
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↗Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIV: Laws (1853 edition)en.wikisource.org
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