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Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia, edited by Frank Shuffelton. Penguin Classics, 1998, query 17.

Madison, James. "War and Republicanism; from Political Observations, April 20, 1795." Selected Writings of James Madison, edited by Ralph Ketcham. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, ch. 57.

Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 78: Duration in office: good behavior. Why needed.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 70: Energy in the executive. First ingredient: Unity.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I Of the Rights of Persons, edited by David Lemmings. Oxford University Press, 2016, introduction, sec. 2.

Jefferson, Thomas. "William Roscoe, Dec. 27, 1820." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

“From John Adams to Horatio Gates, 23 March 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-04-02-0023.

Washington, George. "Farewell Address, September 19, 1796." George Washington: Writings, edited by John Rhodehamel. Library of America, 1997.

Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugral Address, March 4, 1861." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Written by Delegates of The Constitutional Convention. Racehorse, 2016, amend. 5.

Justinian. Justinian's Institutes, translated by Peter Birks and Grant McLeod. Cornell University Press, 1987, bk. 1, ch. 1, para. 1.

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1864." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Churchill, Winston. "'The gift of a common tongue', 6 September 1943, Harvard, Boston." Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches. Hyperion, 2005.