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Excerpt from The Influence of the Legal Profession in the Affairs of Civil Government: An Address Delivered Before the Nebraska State Bar Association at Lincoln, Nebraska, on Wednesday, the Eighteenth Day of January 1882
Mr. Lincoln simply put into apt words, an idea that had been growing upon the world since history was born, when he spoke of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as from the very nature of man. This seems to have been intended from the beginning.
A brief glance into the shadows of the past may not be foreign to the present inquiry, and I therefore invite attention to a condensed summary of historical fact touching the gradual advance of the nations in matters of government The earliest traditions, writes Mr.
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