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Woodrow Wilson: “Constitutional objections, before the war habitual, have, it would seem, permanently lost their prominence.”

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Constitutional objections, before the war habitual, have, it would seem, permanently lost their prominence.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

This quote notes the decline of constitutional objections in the post-war era.

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