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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Thus come all governments, while revolutions are the results of the outworking of principles, through peoples, who are…”

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Thus come all governments, while revolutions are the results of the outworking of principles, through peoples, who are their representatives.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull connects the emergence of governments to the principles that guide revolutions and societal change.

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