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A public articulated and operating through representative officers is the state; there is no state without a government, but also there is none without the public.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgJohn Dewey: “A public articulated and operating through representative officers is the state; there is no state without a government…”
Editor's note · Context
Dewey explains the interdependence of the public and government in the formation of a state.
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