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With life everywhere throughout the continent, it is impossible to seize illicit power over the whole people by seizing any central offices.
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gutenberg.orgWoodrow Wilson: “With life everywhere throughout the continent, it is impossible to seize illicit power over the whole people by seizing…”
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Wilson argues that central power cannot dominate a nation with widespread civic engagement.
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