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What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible. And when the problems get bad enough – as they might do, for example, another serious terrorist attack, as they might do with another financial meltdown – some one person will come forward and say, "Give me total power, and I will solve this problem." That is how the Roman republic fell….That is how democracy dies. And if something is not done to improve the level of civic knowledge, that is what you should worry about at night.
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Born:
September 17, 1939
Died:
May 8, 2025
(aged 85)
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David Hackett Souter was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served from October 1990 until his retirement in June 2009.
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