"We are the people" (1886? 1888?)

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"We are the people!" was the slogan of baseball's New York Giants, 1888 and
1889 National League champions.
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"We, the people" is from the constitution.
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"We are the people" is to be a new slogan of the Democratic party. No one
has remembered that it was used before, it seems.
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Does Fred Shapiro have it? I'm having trouble looking for it in Paper of
Record (Sporting News). "We" and "are" and "the" are all ignored as common
"noise" words.