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Herbert Hoover: “It calls attention to the urgency of obedience to law by our citizens and to the imperative necessity for greater…”

On the recordJanuary 19, 1931
It calls attention to the urgency of obedience to law by our citizens and to the imperative necessity for greater assumption and performance by State and local governments of their share of responsibilities under the 'concurrent enforcement' provision of the Constitution if enforcement is to be successful.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Message to the Congress Transmitting Report of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement.

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