Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States (1937)

Genre : History, Drama

Runtime : 20M

Director : Edward L. Cahn

Synopsis

Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States is a 1937 short directed by Edward Cahn.

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