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"The deterioration of every government
begins with the decay of the principles
on which it was founded."

-- Charles de Montesquieu
[Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat] (1689-1755) Baron de Montesquieu
Source: The Spirit of the Laws, VIII, 1752