A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. (James Madison)

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

James Madison

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