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Harry Truman: The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.

On the recordDecember 14, 1952
The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Address at the National Archives Dedicating the New Shrine for the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the...

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