Vox populi - A Latin phrase meaning "the voice of the people." The original saying, from a eighth-century letter to the Emperor Charlemagne from Alcuin, an English theologian, is vox populi, vox dei - "the voice of the people is the voice of G-d." Even then it was disputed.
Source - American Government & Politics, Harper Collins Dictionary - Jay M. Shafritz-1993
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2010-11-05
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