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Why are the states sometimes described as laboratories of government

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"Laboratories of democracy" is an expression popularized by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann to depict how a "state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country."

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