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Victoria C. Woodhull: “When analyzed, it thus appears that governments are independent of peoples, and always exist in some form while peoples…”

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When analyzed, it thus appears that governments are independent of peoples, and always exist in some form while peoples come and pass away.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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She concludes that governments persist independently of the people, who may rise and fall.

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