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You are in a minority and, from the nature of your institutions, your relative power is yearly decreasing.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “You are in a minority and, from the nature of your institutions, your relative power is yearly decreasing.”
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Sherman addresses the diminishing power of a minority group in the context of political institutions.
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