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Woodrow Wilson: And yet it is notorious that they never have acted as a unit, nor ever can act as a unit under our existing…

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And yet it is notorious that they never have acted as a unit, nor ever can act as a unit under our existing constitution.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Wilson critiques the notion of the people acting as a unit under the U.S. Constitution, arguing that this is not the case in practice.

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