National Legislative Assembly

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    “Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.”
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    “The legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, ... thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.”
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    “Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”
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