FDR: “Those provisions... amount to an unconstitutional invasion of the…”

On the recordMay 18, 1937

Those provisions... amount to an unconstitutional invasion of the province of the executive.

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Democratic · New York

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Veto of New York World's Fair Appropriation

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FDR: “Those provisions... amount to an unconstitutional invasion of the province of the executive.”