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" Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does. "

M. Stanton Evans

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" Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians. "

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M. Stanton Evans

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