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The unfitness of whatever public exists, with respect to the government which is nominally its organ, is made manifest in the extra-legal agencies which have grown up.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgJohn Dewey: “The unfitness of whatever public exists, with respect to the government which is nominally its organ, is made manifest…”
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Dewey points out the disconnect between the public and its government, evidenced by the rise of extra-legal agencies.
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