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Harry Truman: “We have discovered that the Constitution does not prevent us from correcting social injustice, or advancing the general…”

On the recordDecember 14, 1952
We have discovered that the Constitution does not prevent us from correcting social injustice, or advancing the general welfare.
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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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