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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Random Elections?

I have so poor an opinion of the bulk both of the electors and the elected, that, I think, if the seats in the house of commons could be determined by a lottery, abundance of mischief and wickedness might be prevented, and perhaps the nation might be represented to as much advantage by this as by any other method; but these are not my concerns.

John Newton

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