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Woodrow Wilson: It had not to create, but only to expand, self-government.

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It had not to create, but only to expand, self-government.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Wilson asserts that the expansion of self-government was the primary task of American democracy.

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