Talk:Laboratories of democracy

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Is the illustration of the ACA being modeled on the Massachusetts health care really the best example of the States' role as laboratories of democracy? To cite this with no other examples seems like an NPOV violation to me. WhiteBTX (talk) 03:45, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

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Brandeis didn't even say this? And it's at least as old as 1831, not 1932? ???
So, I did some casual research and am kind of troubled to find: What's the correct way to tag this article as problematic? jhawkinson (talk) 10:15, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Brandeis didn't even say "laboratories of democracy." The 1932 dissent he wrote talks about states as laboratories, but it doesn't use the word democracy. It seems a stretch to say he popularized the phrase he didn't even use.
 * The phrase seems to massively antedate him. This 1831 Google Books result has "From the many 'laboratories of democracy' provided by our states have come many worthwhile innovations in government." But, despite its use of quotation marks, it's not apparent what it is quoting.