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Again, the possession of power is always connected with the desire to perpetuate it, and also with a sensitive jealousy of all measures having a tendency to diminish its controlling effectiveness, or to lessen the value of the units constituting that power.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Jacobs reflects on the relationship between power and the desire to maintain it within political structures.

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