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Woodrow Wilson: Certain freedoms of opinion and utterance, of choice of occupation and of allegiance, of fair trial and equitable…

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Certain freedoms of opinion and utterance, of choice of occupation and of allegiance, of fair trial and equitable condemnation, have been blocked out as inviolable territories, lying quite beyond the jurisdiction of political sovereignty.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Wilson identifies certain freedoms as inviolable, beyond the reach of political sovereignty.

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