They hold inviolate in their own hands the jurisdiction over their own freedom and the ownership of their own property.
Calvin Coolidge: “They hold inviolate in their own hands the jurisdiction over their own freedom and the ownership of their own property.”
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Coolidge asserts the importance of individual freedom and property rights in American society.
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