"And wherever it can be required, and the people will accept it"
No. And drop dead.
Isn't that some tortured syntax? Takes work to do that. Figure that nobody will accept it as a premise and the sentence starts to make sense. It's a classic political rhetorical device - only two choices are possible, and both false, but be sure to pick the "correct" one. Same with anti-tobacco legislation or anything else.
"And wherever it can be required, and the people will accept it"
Talk about weasel words. . . . [weasel word: "a word of an equivocal nature used to deprive a statement of its force or to evade a direct commitment." American Heritage Dictionary.]