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Jimmy Carter: “I see no reason why we should let a foreign nation through economic pressure circumvent or abrogate the Bill of Rights…”

On the recordSeptember 29, 1976
I see no reason why we should let a foreign nation through economic pressure circumvent or abrogate the Bill of Rights of the United States.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Address to a Conference of the Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations in Boston, Massachusetts

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