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> While the common people gained rights for the first time, and secured a say in the government, the new notion of popular sovereignty led directly to civic responsibility, and thus gave the state the power to extract far more from them than any king would have ever dreamed of. From punishing taxation, to mass conscription, and eventually total war and the total mobilization of society, if the people felt that affairs of state were ultimately their choice, and that they were bound together as one collective nation, then the state could demand anything and take everything.
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