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Originally posted by hermit22
He's really just echoing Thomas Jefferson here.
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I <b>beg</b> your pardon?
You mean the Jefferson who said:
" I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general."? And "My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual."? How about "Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government; whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."? Not to mention "Men... are naturally divided into two parties. Those who fear and distrust the people... [and] Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe... depository of the public interest.".
Were you perhaps thinking of Hamilton? He wrote quite a bit that resonates with "the people are not equipped to rule". But surely not Jefferson.