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Victoria C. Woodhull: “A government founded in the principles ours was could not have been organized except by men of the very highest order of…”

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A government founded in the principles ours was could not have been organized except by men of the very highest order of development in the true principles of government.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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She argues that a government based on true principles requires leaders of the highest moral development.

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