Anonymous ID: 83ba30 July 28, 2021, 7:32 p.m. No.14219127   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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feelin' nostalgic

 

Ballots Rather Than Bullets

 

The Declaration of Independence asserts that government is legitimate only when the people consent to it. The election of 1800 demonstrated the legitimacy of the American system of government because the people were able to assert their will and change the government, according to the strictures of the Constitution. With the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency, the American people effected a change of government without firing a shot.

 

https://online.hillsdale.edu/landing/intro-to-the-constitution