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John Dewey: Popular franchise and majority rule afforded the imagination a picture of individuals in their untrammeled individual…

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Popular franchise and majority rule afforded the imagination a picture of individuals in their untrammeled individual sovereignty making the state.
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John Dewey

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Dewey describes the idealized vision of individuals exercising their sovereignty through the state.

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