...free (and it is blasphemy to believe it) the secret will be found in the making himself the depository of the powers respecting himself so far as he is competent to them, and delegating only what is beyond his competency by a synthetical process to higher and higher orders of functionaries, so as to trust fewer...

...believe it,) that the secret will be found to be in the making himself the depository of the ].>owers respecting himself, so far as he is competent to them,...orders of functionaries, so as to trust fewer and fewer lowers in proportion as the trustees become more and more oligarchical. The elementary republics of...

...a blasphemy to believe it) that the secret will be found to be in the making himself the depository of the powers respecting himself, so far as he is competent to them, and delegating only what is necessary . . . to higher and higher orders of functionaries, so as to trust fewer and fewer powers...

...blasphemy to believe it,) that the secret will be found to be in the making himself the depository of the powers respecting himself, so far as he is...in proportion as the trustees become more and more oligarchal. The elementary republics of the wards, the county republics, the State republics, and the...

...blasphemy to believe it,) that the secret will be found to be in the making himself the depository of the powers respecting himself, so far as he is...as the trustees become more and more oligarchical" (L and B, 14:421-22). INDEX Adams, Abigail, 66 Adams, John: and Samuel Adams, 4-5; and Continental...

...system would also be the most free. The secret of freedom lay in: "making [each man] the depository of the powers respecting himself, so far as he is...his competence by a synthetical process, to higher orders or functionaries, so as to trust fewer and fewer powers in proportion as the trustees become...

...placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best. . . . The elementary republics of the wards, the county...the republic of the Union, would form a gradation of authoriries, standing each on the basis of law, holding every one its delegated share of powers, and...

...The "secret" of maintaining freedom, he suggested, was to make the individual alone "the depository of the powers respecting himself, so far as he is...his competence by a synthetical process, to higher & higher orders of functionaries, so as to trust fewer and fewer powers, in proportion as the trustees...

...saw the emerging pyramid of governments as a vertical system of checks and balances on each other: "The elementary republics of the wards, the county...the republic of the Union, would form a gradation of its authorities, standing each on the basis of law, holding every one its delegated share of powers,...

..."secret" of republican liberty "will be found to be in the making . . . [of each citizen] the depository f has ordained." For "there is no truth more thoroughly...than that there exists in the ceconomy and course (to Cabell, February 2, 1816; cf. to Kercheval, July 12, 1816). If Jefferson's views on republican...