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“On this [men being susceptible to power] there was absolute agreement. Everyone, of course, knew that if ‘weak or ignorant men are entrusted with power’ there will be ‘universal confusion,’ for ‘such exaltation will... make them giddy and vain and deprive them of the little understanding they had before.’”
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Better Big 3: LeBron, Bosh, and Wade or Representation & Consent, Constitution & Rights, and Sovereignty?
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Chapter 4 takeaways: Conspiracy theories are older than the United States, everything about colonists fears of standing armies is fascinatingly timely, and Alexander Hamilton regarded English society “an old, wrinkled, withered, worn-out hag.”
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and the whole beach boo’d when I provoked them by answering, “what are you reading?”
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