“If I had to choose between government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

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Explanation:

Jefferson writes from Paris to Edward Carrington, whom Jefferson sent as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788, on the importance of a free press to keep government in check. He concludes that if he had to choose between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter”:

they remained in rural areas and worked at jobs such as lumbering or farming.