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FDR: The judicial function of government is the protection of the individual and of the community through quick and certain…

On the recordDecember 5, 1933
The judicial function of government is the protection of the individual and of the community through quick and certain justice.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Address before the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America

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