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The Legal and Educational Systems

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Leonard Wood and Cuban Independence, 1898–1902

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With physical rebuilding and administrative organization started, Wood and Root began the revision of the legal and educational systems. Both men believed that a fair system of justice and a literate public were indispensable to a free republic. A disproportionate amount of attention centered on the departments of justice and education, because Leonard Wood knew he had to meet the future halfway by training Cubans to manage their own affairs.

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Hitchman, J.H. (1971). The Legal and Educational Systems. In: Leonard Wood and Cuban Independence, 1898–1902. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0749-3_3

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