All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

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Comments during the New York Convention on the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Albany, New York, June 27, 1933. Everett Somerville Brown (ed.) Ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: State Convention Records and Laws (New York: Da Capo Press, 1970), p. 302

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Cf. Jane Addams

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