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Calvin Coolidge: Government is not an edifice that the founders turn over to posterity all completed.

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Government is not an edifice that the founders turn over to posterity all completed.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Coolidge asserts that government is an ongoing project that requires active participation from its citizens.

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