Thus formulated, its practices would ever tend to bring all the people into a comprehension of it, which comprehension is now scarcely existent except in meaningless words, which are dealt from pharisaical pulpits.
Woodhull criticizes the lack of genuine understanding of government among the populace, which is often obscured by rhetoric.
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