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"In today's episode of Some More News, Cody explores how easy it is to elect lawmakers who make it easier to elect lawmakers who don't have to answer to the people who elect them."
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
-- George Washington, Excerpt from his Farewell Address, September 17, 1796
