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"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy."
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"An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement."
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