Everybody knows that there never has been a currency in circulation sufficient in quantity to meet all the requirements of commerce that had a complete basis in gold, and everybody also knows that there is not gold enough in the world to meet this specific requirement.
Woodhull points out the historical inadequacy of gold-backed currency to meet commercial demands.
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Being so vastly in the majority, every office should be filled by them.
It is in the people themselves, and in the fundamental principles upon which society is built, and those which the people allow government to be administered upon.
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