But America has added to the Representative System another principle, without which it is incomplete, and which, in the course of events, is destined, I cannot doubt, to find acceptance wherever the Representative System is employed: I mean the principle of equality.
He argues that the principle of equality is essential for a complete Representative System, which America has added to the traditional model.
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