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Harry Truman: “The Constitution is a living force--it is a growing thing.”

On the recordDecember 14, 1952
The Constitution is a living force--it is a growing thing.
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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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