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Calvin Coolidge: “There began the first of governments to acknowledge that it was founded on the sovereignty of the people.”

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There began the first of governments to acknowledge that it was founded on the sovereignty of the people.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Coolidge notes that the concept of government based on the sovereignty of the people began on July 4, 1776.

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