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Universal suffrage openly proclaims this right; and what is the republic without it?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Universal suffrage openly proclaims this right; and what is the republic without it?”
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Sumner asserts that universal suffrage is essential to the concept of a republic.
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