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No one should vote who cannot read, write and do basic arithmetic
Drawn from what John Stuart Mill said
What John Stuart Mill actually said
- John Stuart Mill Philosopher (1806 to 1873), a utilitarian and liberal
I regard it as wholly inadmissible that any person should participate in the suffrage without being able to read, write, and, I will add, perform the common operations of arithmetic.
Where this was said
↗Considerations on Representative Government (1861)gutenberg.org
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