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Calvin Coolidge: Under the Constitution of the United States there is neither any peasantry nor any order of nobility.

On the recordFebruary 21, 1924
Under the Constitution of the United States there is neither any peasantry nor any order of nobility.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Radio Address to the Nation on the Occasion of Washington's Birthday

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