Ronald Reagan: “It is not the Federal Government or the States who retain the…”

On the recordJuly 29, 1981

It is not the Federal Government or the States who retain the power—the people retain the power.

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Republican · California

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Remarks in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Annual Convention of the National Conference of State Legislatures

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