In a 1799 letter to Elbridge Gerry, Jefferson wrote: "When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property".
Jefferson said he never believed that there was one moral standard for the private man and another for the public man.
Against Utah Valley University for negligence and wrongful acts.
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