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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

James Madison

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Wenn wir die Mehrheit der Suffrages als das Kriterium der Wahrheit annehmen wollen, sollten sie von jenen philosophischen und patriotischen Bürgern besorgt werden, die ihre Vernunft pflegen.

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