Carolina QuotesThe people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the Government, the sovereign power.
Andrew Jackson Carolinian
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Quoted in The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father, Ambrose & Martin, NYU Press (2007), p. 32
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- 2007
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- p. 32
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