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Victoria C. Woodhull: “No individual can be said to be free and be held accountable to a law to which he or she did not consent.”

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No individual can be said to be free and be held accountable to a law to which he or she did not consent.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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This quote highlights the principle that accountability to laws requires individual consent for true freedom to exist.

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