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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Whether a government founded or administered upon any other basis than the eternal principles of right and justice can…”

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Whether a government founded or administered upon any other basis than the eternal principles of right and justice can or cannot be enduring, is a proposition the simplest mind may solve.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull posits that a government not based on justice and right cannot endure, a fundamental principle of her political philosophy.

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