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FDR: We shall affirm our debt to those who ordained and established the Constitution

On the recordJuly 3, 1937
We shall affirm our debt to those who ordained and established the Constitution
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FDR
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Proclamation 2242—One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Constitution

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