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First Principles: Nothing Is So Contagious As Opinion, Especially On Questions Which, Susceptible of Very Different Glosses, Begat In the Mind A Distrust of Itself

“Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.” – James Madison (1790)

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