[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope.
Thomas JeffersonWhile the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
Thomas JeffersonNo person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.
Thomas Jefferson