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FDR: This decision—if you accept the obiter dicta and all the phraseology of it—seems to be squarely on the side of restoring…

On the recordMay 30, 1935
This decision—if you accept the obiter dicta and all the phraseology of it—seems to be squarely on the side of restoring to the States forty-eight different controls over national economic and social problems.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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