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Calvin Coolidge: It is too much assumed that because an abuse exists it is the business of the National Government to provide a remedy.

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It is too much assumed that because an abuse exists it is the business of the National Government to provide a remedy.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge critiques the assumption that the National Government should remedy every abuse.

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