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This here, this is Erik.
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-What's up, man?
-This is Knocko over here.

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-This is James here.
-Hi.

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-Everybody, this is Remy.
-Hey, Remy.

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What's up?
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You should know that democratic
theory did not begin...

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...with Rousseau's contract. No.
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Its origins, in fact, lie in
the subject of landownership.

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The common people became aware...
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...that the upper classes owned the land
upon which they lived and laboured.

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This incensed them...
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...inspired them to seek sovereignty
of their own homelands.

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However,
the social order of the day...

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...did not permit landownership
by the common man.

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Therefore, these people...
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...felt the need to leave
their homelands...

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...to flee in an effort to escape
political and social persecution.

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Hence, the creation that is America.
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Therefore, the basic premise...
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...of democratic theory...
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...is that each and every citizen
living within that society...

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...is entitled...
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...to what?
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We are entitled to life...
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...liberty and the pursuit
of happiness.

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What you people have to realize
is that despite having these rights...

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...very few people exercise them.
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It is that type of apathy that
corrodes our country from within.


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