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“. . . he decided to become a prince and to hold with violence and without obligation to anyone else that which had been conceded to him by agreement . . . ” and
“. . . whoever is the cause of someone becoming powerful is ruined . . . “
– Machiavelli, The Prince
“Any condition for eligibility to vote that cannot be settled by presentation of a birth certificate would give powers to some public official who might have an interest in keeping certain people out of the polling booth. Even if a literacy test administered by some objective deity would be desirable, one administered by a bureaucracy would be intolerable.”