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VOTE, BUT VOTE WISELY.(News)
From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
Date: 20021004
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Byline: John Balzar
More than 150 years ago, the writer James Fenimore Cooper put it this way: "The man who can right himself by a vote will seldom resort to a musket." Cooper found agreement on the point even with his old nemesis, Mark Twain, who set aside humor to observe: "Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible."
Ah, voting. When you read through American civics, you find that almost everybody who presumed to comment on our nation had something celebratory to say about the franchise.
The United States, no one should forget, pioneered the ...
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