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So we're talking about this right to vote, this power to vote.

If we didn't have this right to vote, they probably wouldn't be killing us.

When a big landowner like George Washington offers you a rum-taughty.

It's a pretty good way to make money to just sell your vote.

You're going to be sure you cast a vote for George Washington.

When we have an electorate where it's only soprano singing.

Douglas says the United States now has a chance.

That gets harsh on the ears after a quick minute.

To create a republic.

When we have an electorate with people from all corners of the world.

That is made up of sopranos and autos.

Of all colors, all religions and ethnicity.

Baritones and basses and tenors.

We get the richness of the sound.

Most of us in the United States are raised to believe that our country is the most democratic on the planet,

that the framers of the Constitution, in all their wisdom,

created a perfect system that ensures citizens have a real Constitution in all their wisdom created a perfect system that ensures

citizens have a real say in who their leaders are, that voting is a right and part of our

identity as Americans. But we found that when you start to investigate these beliefs

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