who said voice of the people is voice of god
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Vox Populi, Vox Dei. Vox Populi, Vox Dei is Latin for "the voice of the people is the voice of God." The phrase was used as the title of a Whig tract of 1709, which was expanded in 1710 and later reprintings as The Judgment of whole Kingdoms and Nations.
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The adage vox populi, vox Dei was first catalogued in a writing by Alcuin "People are to be guided rather than obeyed. Those who claim things like, "The voice of the people is the voice of God," aren't worth listening to." George Boas discovers that "the people" is not a clearly recognisable entity when he follows the changing meaning of the phrase through European history.
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