Victoria C. Woodhull: “So that in all future time the people themselves will be their own…”

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So that in all future time the people themselves will be their own lawmakers—will be the government.

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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull envisions a future where the people govern themselves directly, becoming their own lawmakers.

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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.

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Victoria C. Woodhull: “So that in all future time the people themselves will be their own lawmakers—will be the government.”