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Patriot Quote - Oh How True

September 10, 2007 |

 Oh how true it is.

“Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.”
– George Mason (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention,
14 June 1788)

Reference: The Debates of the Several State…, Elliot, vol. 3
(405)

Similar words are found in “Common Sense” and remain a concern even today.

…and that the elected might never form to themselves an interest separate from the electors, prudence will point out the propriety of having elections often; because as the elected might by that means return and mix again with the general body of the electors in a few months, their fidelity to the public will be secured by the prudent reflection of not making a rod for themselves. And as this frequent interchange will establish a common interest with every part of the community….


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