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Reading it on the banner, I responded with joy: “‘Trust the People,’ and Might will no longer make Right, Government everywhere will be founded upon the consent of the governed, and Slavery will become impossible!
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He expresses joy in the idea that true governance should be based on the consent of the governed, rejecting the notion of slavery.
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