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It was inevitable from that moment that the American System, based on the principles of the Reformation in their broadest sense and their most universal application and briefly summed up in the proposition that "all men are created equal," must conquer, or be conquered by, the European System, based either on the principles of Mediaevalism, summed up in the proposition that "all men are created unequal," or on a compromise between the principles of
"Colony,"--or "Free State"? "Dependence,"--or "Just Connection"? "Empire,"--or "Union"? Alpheus Henry Snow 1889
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