"The Founding Fathers were inspired by ancient Rome—witness the Senate and the Capitol in Washington—and they were well aware that the Roman Republic eventually turned into an autocratic empire. They feared that some American Caesar would do something similar to their republic, & constructed multiple overlapping self-correcting mechanisms, known as the system of checks and balances. One of these was a free press."

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Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
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