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No less is due to a people who, after nearly five years of demonstrated capacity to fulfill the obligations of self-governing statehood, come of their free will to merge their destinies in our body-politic.
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McKinley acknowledged the readiness of the Hawaiian people to join the United States after demonstrating self-governance.
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