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That which a whole nation chooses to do, it has a right to do" was one of them.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “That which a whole nation chooses to do, it has a right to do" was one of them.”
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Beveridge asserts the principle that a nation has the right to determine its own actions collectively.
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