The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) American political philosopher and writer
Essay (1795-07), “Dissertation on First-Principles of Government”
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