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Later, speeches by the 16th president of the United States Abraham Lincoln would reiterate this fundamental source of legitimacy. "Our government rests in public opinion," Lincoln said in 1856. In his 1854 speech at Peoria, Illinois, Lincoln espoused the proposition "that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own," a principle existing "at the foundation of the sense

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