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Standings

Thinker	Wins	Editions	Votes	Win rate
Niccolò Machiavelli	3	55	6
Adam Smith	2	56	3
John Locke	1	56	3

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AI-generation disclosure: the essays in this edition are AI-generated dramatizations of each historical thinker's published ideas, written from verified reporting. The historical figures did not write, review, or endorse this text.