Carolina Quotes[W]e are not bound to adhere to the doctrine held by the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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Woodrow Wilson, “The Author and Signers of the Declaration,” (July 1907), The Papers of Woodrow Wilson (PWW), 17:251
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- 1907
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