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Andrew Johnson: “Political science, perhaps as highly perfected in our own time and country as in any other, has not yet disclosed any…”

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Political science, perhaps as highly perfected in our own time and country as in any other, has not yet disclosed any means by which civil wars can be absolutely prevented.
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee

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Johnson discusses the limitations of political science in preventing civil wars.

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