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Hereditary legislators are as absurd as hereditary judges or mathematicians

Drawn from what Thomas Paine said

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mathematics Doing mathematics: proof, conjecture, and what mathematicians want that other fields do not.

What Thomas Paine actually said

  1. Thomas Paine Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809)
    Thirdly. Because the idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet laureate.

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