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John Sherman: “The political institutions of Great Britain are rapidly approaching our own.”

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The political institutions of Great Britain are rapidly approaching our own.
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John Sherman
Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Sherman notes the similarities between British political institutions and those of the United States.

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