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It is not in having such a constitution but in obeying it that our advantage lies.
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gutenberg.orgWoodrow Wilson: “It is not in having such a constitution but in obeying it that our advantage lies.”
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He asserts that the true advantage of the U.S. Constitution lies in the commitment to obey it, rather than its mere existence.
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