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Victoria C. Woodhull: To solve all these questions it becomes necessary to determine what the fundamental principles of government must be, to…

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To solve all these questions it becomes necessary to determine what the fundamental principles of government must be, to be in harmony with the laws of God, and to adopt them and to follow them out to all their legitimate conclusions and results, discarding everything else.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull argues for the necessity of aligning government principles with divine laws to ensure just governance.

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