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In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not
aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior
to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every
law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all
are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better."
-- Ralph Raldo Emerson - (1803-1882) Source: Essays, Second Series (1844)