French voters preferred representatives who served their special interests over statesmen
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- Political passion arises from economic life yet transcends self-interested profit calculation. (similarity 0.80)
- Rural France chose Parisian hegemony over local autonomy to end the old regime (similarity 0.79)
- Voting system design determines whether majority hatred targets minority candidates (similarity 0.79)
- Louverture forgave pro-British planters, unlike French Republican policy elsewhere. (similarity 0.79)
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