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TIL Slovakia's Constitutional Court Once Ruled That Referendums Have Equal Power to Parliament, Then Immediately Used That Logic to Ban a Referendum

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jYLN TIL that during the 1800 US Presidential campaign, Federalists sent out a paper saying Jefferson was dead, hoping to suppress his support, hoping word would travel slow that he wasn’t dead.
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