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"Thank you, Mr. Lowry, for your respectful and thoughtful discourse. I agree that accountability is at the core of the issue. But I believe that the question you flirt with, but don't properly address, about which level of government should and should not provide specific services goes to the heart of it. If everything were run out of Washington, and we had a problem with our local sewers, we'd have to convince twenty million people that our sewers are more important than gay marriage, abortion and their own sewers combined. This is represenative democracy?
'Our country is too large to have all of its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance and [out] from under the eye of their constituents, must... be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens, and at the same circimstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite the public agents to corruption, plunder and waste. And I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force [throughout] the United States..., it would become the most corrupt government on the earth.'--Thomas Jefferson"
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