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Every amendment to the Constitution, from the first to the last, has limited the application of the doctrine of home rule in government.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Boutwell: “Every amendment to the Constitution, from the first to the last, has limited the application of the doctrine of home…”
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Boutwell asserts that every constitutional amendment has restricted the principle of home rule in governance.
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Shall your representative stand for Nathan Dane and Abraham Lincoln and Freedom, or for William McKinley and Despotism?
President McKinley and his supporters demand subserviency of all who are not within the lines of the American seas.
You are called to a choice between the doctrines of Nathan Dane and Abraham Lincoln on one side and the doctrines and policy of President McKinley and his supporters on the other side.
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