advocate
verb (used with object)
to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly.
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No one so far has dared to take up this problem as a present question for statecraft, but it comes unheralded, unadvocated, and sits at every legislative board.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells