WORLD HISTORY

____ All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered [unrestrained] elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom. Here are the title deeds of freedom which should lie in every cottage home. Here is the message of the British and American peoples to mankind. Let us preach what we practise-let us practice what we preach ____ Winston Churchill, Sinews of Peace (the Iron Curtain speech), March 5, 194649. In this excerpt, Winston Churchill is maintaining that the people of a country have a right to