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For a true Democracy, founded on the rights of man, I have an unfeigned respect; but for a pretended Democracy, founded on human slavery, and existing only for this enormous crime, I have no respect.
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Sumner distinguishes between true democracy based on human rights and a false democracy that supports slavery.
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