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government of the people, by the people, and for the people

  1. Words from the Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln , often quoted as a definition of democracy .


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In a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, the public cannot allow their vital role in the rulemaking process to be silenced.

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“We’re here today to in fact make sure that after so many people in our country have fought and fought and died for democracy, that we are going to be — stay — a government of the people, by the people and for the people,” he said.

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That’s government of the people, by the people and for the people at its most basic level.

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Takei recalled how his father taught him how the government “of the people, by the people and for the people,” as Abraham Lincoln put it in his Gettysburg Address, could also prove a weakness.

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Article 2 of the French Constitution says that the principle of the Republic is “government of the people, by the people and for the people.”

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