Here exists the democratic form of government; and that form of government, by the confession of European statesmen, "gives a power of which no other form is capable, because it incorporates every man with the state and arouses everything that belongs to the soul.
Johnson asserts the superiority of the democratic government in the U.S. as recognized by European statesmen.
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