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Such bodies as this are the convenient agencies of a free people to mark out the line of march and to select their leaders.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “Such bodies as this are the convenient agencies of a free people to mark out the line of march and to select their…”
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Sherman describes the importance of conventions as a means for the public to organize and select leaders.
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