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Victoria C. Woodhull: “What are the evidences that all future forms may not fail from similar causes, or specially, that the form we represent…”

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What are the evidences that all future forms may not fail from similar causes, or specially, that the form we represent will not fail?
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull questions the potential for future governance to fail based on historical precedents.

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