“But it is rather true that the people, in so far as this term signifies a special part of the citizens, does not know what it wants.”
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So ist vielmehr der Fall, daß das Volk, insosern mit diesem Worte ein besonderer Theil der Mitglieder eines Staats bezeichnet ist, den Theil ausdrückt, der nicht weiß was er will.
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