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For centuries some seats in the British Parliament were controlled and probably sold as were commissions in the army, but that has never been the case here.
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gutenberg.orgCalvin Coolidge: “For centuries some seats in the British Parliament were controlled and probably sold as were commissions in the army…”
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Coolidge contrasts the practices of the British Parliament with American democratic ideals.
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