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The framers gave us what they called a republic, but by a republic they meant a representative democracy, and by a representative democracy, they meant a government, as Madison put it in Federalist 52, that would have a branch that would be dependent upon the people alone.

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And in Iraq, finally, violence is on the rise again, and the country has yet to form a government four months after its last parliamentary elections.

The government also promises land and hunting rights in the surrounding states.

In fact, this is the only war in American history in which the government negotiated a peace by conceding everything demanded by the enemy.

1871: The Indian Appropriation Act makes all Indians wards of the federal government.

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