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FDR: For him law was an instrument of just relations between man and man.

On the recordApril 24, 1935
For him law was an instrument of just relations between man and man.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Message to Congress on the Bequest to the Nation by Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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