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To guard against these dangers, they placed their chief hope in the Senate.
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Adlai Stevenson
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gutenberg.orgAdlai Stevenson: “To guard against these dangers, they placed their chief hope in the Senate.”
Editor's note · Context
Stevenson points out that the framers of the Constitution relied on the Senate to protect democracy.
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