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Regarding "Vox populi, vox dei"
Letter from Alcuin to Charlemagne in 798
"Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit."
"And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_populi
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Merci à @iSchack

I guess now's as good a time as any to note that "vox populi, vox Dei" apparently entered English as a warning from the 8th c. scholar Alcuin of York that the "tumult of the crowd is always very close to madness" so one should ignore those who say that the voice of the people is the voice of God.

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