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That which organizes Society as a Democracy and Government, and Republic--or that which organizes Society as an Aristocracy, and Government as an Oligarchy?
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgThat which organizes Society as a Democracy and Government, and Republic--or that which organizes Society as an Aristocracy, and Government as an Oligarchy?
Beecher contrasts democratic governance with aristocratic and oligarchic structures.
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