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  • A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man.

    Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.459, Penguin
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