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FDR: “All doubts should be resolved in favor of the bill, leaving to the courts, in an orderly fashion, the ultimate question…”

On the recordJuly 5, 1935
All doubts should be resolved in favor of the bill, leaving to the courts, in an orderly fashion, the ultimate question of constitutionality.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Letter to Representative Samuel B. Hill on H.R. 8479.

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