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What does Abraham Lincoln mean when he said government of the people by the people and for the people?
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoThis was the very end of the Gettysburg Address. The speech was delivered by Lincoln, and lasted 2 minutes.
The last line reads:
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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∙ 13y agoLike many human-rights appeals, it sounded good but did not actually mean much. ("Government by the people"??)
He was really talking about freeing the slaves and extending the vote.
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∙ 14y agoYes, it being the US government, which he fought to preserve against the secessionist south.
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∙ 12y agoThe phrase government of the people by the people for the people means that the people under god should not have died
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∙ 15y agoPopular sovereignty
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The phrase is adapted from the first English translation of the Bible by John Wycliffe and is included in the General Prologue to the Bible translation of 1384. The statement was made is, "This Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People." A paraphrase of this was made by Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address.
