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Montás, like Swift, is concerned with the epistemological and ethical res publica that makes up a civilization and how to keep it alive and transmit it.—M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 20 Feb. 2022 Supporters of the latter tradition, with its focus on the public interest (the res publica), argue that voting is an ineluctable duty of citizenship as well as an absolute right.—Win McCormack, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
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