There's a right to a republican form of government.
Fraud abridges that right for all involved.
“Fraud abridges that right for all involved.”
DO YOU MEAN?
’ sect. 499: ‘Fraud vitiates every thing, and a judgment equally with a contract; that is, a judgment obtained directly by fraud, and not merely a judgment founded on a fraudulent instrument; for, in general, the court will not go again into the merits of an action for the purpose of detecting and annulling the fraud.’ . . . ‘