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Calvin Coolidge: “The authority of a just government derived from the consent of the governed, has back of it a Power that does not fail.”

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The authority of a just government derived from the consent of the governed, has back of it a Power that does not fail.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Coolidge asserts that a just government's authority is rooted in the consent of the governed.

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