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“We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them.”

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The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

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The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

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