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The people have arrived at that degree of understanding of their actual interests, that will not admit of a blind acquiescence in all that even a “People’s Congress” may do.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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Editor's note · Context
Woodhull asserts that the public is becoming more aware of their interests and will no longer accept blind obedience.
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Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.
In such a condition of things, courts of justice, with all their attendant judges, bailiffs and attorneys-at-law, would find their occupation gone.
To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.
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.