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Calvin Coolidge: Government will take on new activities, but it is not more to control the people, the people are more to control the…

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Government will take on new activities, but it is not more to control the people, the people are more to control the Government.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge asserts that while government may expand its activities, it is essential for the people to maintain control over it.

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