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Quote from John Jay,


"The people who own the country ought to govern it."


By:

John Jay (more quotes by John Jay or books by/about John Jay)


(1745-1829) first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, First President of the United States - preceding George Washington,
one of three men most responsible for the US Constitution

Source:

Monaghan, John Jay, (1935), p. 323

Categories:

America, Constitution, Government, Land, President, Republic

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