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It affects every man, woman and child in our broad land, the rich with his investments, the poor with his labor.
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Sherman highlights the widespread impact of the free coinage of silver on all citizens.
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Resolved, That the people who constitute the supreme power in the United States, should guard with jealous care the rights of the several states, as independent governments.
Some of you broke down the only political organization that could compete with us, and thus gave us an easy victory.
Resolved, That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
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