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Is the ‘grand foundation’ crumbling?

the first governor of Arizona Territory, gave his inaugural 1864 speech to the Territorial Legislature, he made his priorities clear: “The first duty of the legislators of a free state is to make, as far as lies in their power, education as free to all its citizens as the air they breathe. A system of common

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