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Extract from a letter : the trial of our democratic form of government, the great question now to be solved, is a democratic government a possible thing, or must we have a despotism?

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1863.
Call number: 74108
Creator: Powell, Samuel (active 1861)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: lg. 8vo
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Extract from a letter : the trial of our democratic form of government, the great question now to be solved, is a democratic government a possible thing, or must we have a despotism?

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