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A Republic Have We Kept It Declared by W R Boyd
Cedar Rapids editor W R Boyd argues the United States has strayed from constitutional principles through amendments and power shifts. He traces six steps away from Founding design including the Twelfth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth amendments, the spoils system, and the rise of primary elections, urging a return to republican governance and limits on federal power.
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