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form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizen body.
It was primarily that FDR thought such a willingness to help the cause of minorities during the 1930s would "turn off" members of Congress, whom he needed to help pass his New Deal legislation.
In common sense, Paine suggested that American independence from Britain was an absolute necessity, since he thought it was absurd for such a small island to rule over such a vast territory.
