Are the judgments of public opinion inevitably right or even relatively wise, or are they merely the resultants of the delusions, prejudices, and inadequacies of the supposedly omnicompetent citizen exercising his right divine of the ignorant to govern wrong?

(sarcastically, indicating lack of interest) I'm going to the store. / Knock yourself out.

That went well.

In colonial times, when land was not worth much and banks didn’t exist, most lending was based on human property. In the early 1700s, slaves were the dominant collateral in South Carolina.