People like Thomas Jefferson understood that some of our elected officials would be corrupt.
They knew this has been a fact of political life since the classical era to which they devoted so much study in order to create a system of government that would better serve the people. They believed that a free press combined with a literate electorate had the potential to create a new social compact that elevated individual liberty over the elitist authoritarianism that dominated most of the planet at the time.
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