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Who but the people have a right to form government?...
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Beveridge emphasizes the fundamental democratic principle that the people hold the authority to establish government.
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The Experiment, with its foundations laid on universal Suffrage and an unfettered and licentious Press is of too violent a nature for our excitable People.
To Marshall reared--the great, the good, the wise; Born for all ages, honored in all skies; His was the fame to mortals rarely given, Begun on earth, but fixed in aim on heaven.
In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.
No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
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