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Woodrow Wilson: There is this greater question at stake: How shall the essential arrangements of the Constitution be preserved?

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There is this greater question at stake: How shall the essential arrangements of the Constitution be preserved?
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Wilson highlights the critical need to maintain the foundational principles of the Constitution.

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