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"Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot capita in unum conspirare possint?"
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The public"It is too rarely recognized that the concept of "public" is absolutely irreducible to the "state." The term "publicum" designates not merely the state administration, but the entire community as constituted by all citizens."
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the Öffentlichkeit or public sphere.
"Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot capita in unum conspirare possint?"
"Le public! le public! combien faut-il de sots pour faire un public?"
"Nec audiendi sunt qui solent dicere vox populi, vox dei; cum tumultus vulgi semper insaniæ proxima sit."
"The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right."
"Those closest, and so most accountable, to the people are best positioned to protect their rights."
"Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus."