The aspiration of Abraham Lincoln, in his marvellous utterance at Gettysburg, was, that “government of the people, by the people, and for the people should not perish from the earth.” But who will venture to exclude from the “people” millions of citizens?
Sumner invokes Lincoln's vision of democracy to argue against excluding any citizens from the definition of 'the people.'
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