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Herbert Hoover: “No individual has the right to determine what law shall be obeyed and what law shall not be enforced.”

On the recordApril 21, 1929
No individual has the right to determine what law shall be obeyed and what law shall not be enforced.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Address to the Associated Press: Law Enforcement and Respect for the Law.

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