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<blockquote>[T]he majority of the plain people of the U.S. will, day in and day out, make fewer mistakes in governing themselves than any smaller class or body of men, no matter what their training, will make in trying to govern them.<ref>.</ref></blockquote>
==Eleftherios Venizelos==
It has been rightly observed that Greece
Venizelos' populist constitutionalism is vividly illustrated in a debate with Senator Alexandros Mylonas. Mylonas suggested that the opinion of Alexandros Svolos, a prominent constitutional lawyer, outweighed that of a politician; Venizelos strongly disagreed:
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