Second rule for Election Day

You must remember Mt Rushmore!
Washington defined leadership
Jefferson defined the reason
Lincoln defined the republic
Roosevelt defined the responsibility
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"Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature. "

"Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights. "

"The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people. "

"The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. "

Thomas Jefferson, The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, John P. Foley, ed. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1900), p. 842.

NEiLc note: don't deflect on Jeffersons use of the term "male" in the first quote... the topic of women's and minority rights is not the discussion here.... Equal rights for all voters is..