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From these sources of power I pass to that other found in the constitutional obligation to guaranty to every State of the Union a republican form of government.
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He refers to the constitutional obligation to ensure a republican form of government for every state.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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