Charles Sumner: “But the true idea of a republican government began with our fathers…”

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But the true idea of a republican government began with our fathers, and its definition is found in their Declaration of Independence.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner highlights the Declaration of Independence as the source of the true definition of republican government.

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