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The representatives said that the elected officials ruled in the people's name. (the Federalists also agreed with that)
The Declaration of Independence and the constitution.
The definition given by Abraham Lincoln is: By the people, Of the people, For the people. It means that the government is from the people and is made by many people and its for the sake of people itself..........
The Federal government encouraged western settlement with the Homestead Act. This was a government policy that said that people who were willing to settle western land would be given large sections of land very cheap.
Abraham Lincoln said one of the most important purposes of government "is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. But in all that people can individually do for themselves, government ought not to interfere."