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The evidences of a perfect government must not be sought among the most powerful and useful members of society, but among the very lowest classes.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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Woodhull posits that the true measure of a perfect government lies in its treatment of the lowest classes, challenging conventional notions of power.
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The tendencies of government from earliest historic time have persistently been to universal sway.
In such a condition of things, courts of justice, with all their attendant judges, bailiffs and attorneys-at-law, would find their occupation gone.
Thousands possessed of comprehensive principles in a semi state of application have sunk with them into obscurity for lack of appreciation and support.
Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.