And yet it is notorious that they never have acted as a unit, nor ever can act as a unit under our existing constitution.
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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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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