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Law (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a fox, said the radical democrats of the English revolution, and poor men are the geese: it pulls off their feathers and feeds on them.

Representation (n.) will ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠never be good, the Levellers held, until laws are made by people like ourselves who know where we hurt.

Representation (n.) meant, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠for the seventeenth-century English pamphleteers, being governed by countrymen who know our wants, not knights and gentlemen blind to the people's sores.