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...At the same into the Catholic tradition-but, rather, time, with the welfare of country inextricably bound up with 'the functioning the realization, derived from the analy- of the Presidency, it is impossible not to be apprehensive about the strain sis of culture and society, that what is that the investigation and possible impeachment of the President work upon called human nature has a history and the nation...
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