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A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

Edmund Barton

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Edmund Barton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: January 18
Died: 1920
Died: January 7
Diplomat
Former Prime Minister Of Australia
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New South Wales
Australia
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