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Calvin Coolidge: You men who represent our industries can see that there is the same right to disperse unlawful assembling of wealth or…

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You men who represent our industries can see that there is the same right to disperse unlawful assembling of wealth or power that there is to disperse a mob that has met to lynch or riot.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge draws a parallel between the right to disperse unlawful gatherings and the right to address unlawful concentrations of wealth or power.

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