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Woodrow Wilson: “We lose, we do not gain, by putting powers of radically different sorts together into the same categories, and driving…”

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We lose, we do not gain, by putting powers of radically different sorts together into the same categories, and driving them abreast, as if they pulled together, in the same propositions.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Wilson warns against the confusion that arises from categorizing fundamentally different powers together.

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