This quote is from lincoln steffen's 1904 book the shame of the cities. in this excerpt, steffens describes a speech given by a corrupt philadelphia official who was trying to counter charges that his ward was "low down":
"[the orator] reminded his hearers that his was the ward of independence hall, and naming over signers of the declaration of independence, he closed his highest flight of eloquence with the statement that 'these men, the fathers of american liberty, voted down here once. and,' he added, with a catching grin, 'they vote here yet.'"
which statement expresses the irony of this particular kind of corruption to the democratic process?

The constant presence of diseases or infectious agents within a given geographic area or population group. it may also refer to the usual prevalence of a given disease with such area or group. it includes holoendemic and hyperendemic diseases. a holoendemic disease is one for which a high prevalent level of infection begins early in life and affects most of the child population, leading to a state of equilibrium such that the adult population shows evidence of the disease much less commonly than do children (malaria in many communities is a holoendemic disease). a hyperendemic disease is one that is constantly present at a high incidence and/or prevalence rate and affects all groups equally. so probably family history.