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This, our new Government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
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Sumner emphasizes the foundational principles of the new government based on universal truths.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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