As sovereignty cannot be forfeited, relinquished or abandoned, those from whom it flows—the citizens—are equal in conferring the power, and should be equal in the enjoyment of its benefits and in the exercise of its rights and privileges.
Woodhull asserts that citizens should be equal in both conferring and enjoying the rights and privileges of sovereignty.
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To begin a work right, is to have it half accomplished; and most powerfully does this apply in the matter of determining who shall be your representatives.
At no time since the close of the Revolutionary War has there been a time more fitting and inviting for such a work.
It will only be considered as a means to other and higher ends.
How has it been possible thus long for leaders to control the masses, except that the masses have permitted others to act for them, and that without rendering any account for such action?