 To ensure that political offices will be held by the natural aristoi, there must be, inter alia, public access to general education and free presses for dissemination of information to the citizenry. With the citizenry generally educated, one has, Jefferson continues to Adams, merely “to leave to the citizens the free election and separation of the aristoi from the pseudo-aristoi,” and “in general they will elect the real good and  wise.”[24]  That is much preferable to the centuries-old method of allowing the wealthy and wellborn to govern at the expense of the people.