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The people have an opportunity to see and hear the men who are engaged in public affairs and questions are discussed upon their intrinsic merits.
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Boutwell reflects on the importance of public engagement in political discourse.
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Here are the assertion of power and the promise of goodness that have attended the origin and movement of every despotism that has risen to curse mankind.
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