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Quotation from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania by John Dickinson
“For who are a free people? not those over whom government is reasonably and equitably exercised”
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Letter VII (1903 Outlook Company reprint of the 1768 Boston edition, Project Gutenberg text)
Dickinson's answer continues that a free people live under a government so constitutionally checked that it cannot be otherwise exercised.
Citation: "For who are a free people? not those over whom government is reasonably and equitably exercised" — John Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Letter VII (1903 Outlook Company reprint of the 1768 Boston edition, Project Gutenberg text). (id letters-from-a-farmer-in-pennsylvania-q5)
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