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Victoria C. Woodhull: Being so vastly in the majority, every office should be filled by them.

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Being so vastly in the majority, every office should be filled by them.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull argues that since laborers are the majority, they should occupy all political offices.

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