Legitimate Powers of Government

  • The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others” ~Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors, ME 2:221
    Advertisements
Published in: on October 3, 2011 at 5:55 am  Leave a Comment  

The URI to TrackBack this entry is: https://founderswisdom.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/legitimate-powers-of-government/trackback/

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Google+ photo

You are commenting using your Google+ account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: