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Woodrow Wilson: Every American who has drunk at the true fountains of principle and tradition must subscribe without reservation to the…

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Every American who has drunk at the true fountains of principle and tradition must subscribe without reservation to the high doctrine of the Virginia Bill of Rights, which in the great days in which our government was set up was everywhere amongst us accepted as the creed of free men.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Wilson calls for Americans to uphold the principles of the Virginia Bill of Rights as a creed of freedom.

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