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Teddy Roosevelt: “The courts would retain, no matter what the legislature did, the power to interfere and upset any action that was…”

On the recordMay 9, 1905
The courts would retain, no matter what the legislature did, the power to interfere and upset any action that was confiscatory in its nature.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Banquet of the Iroquois Club in Chicago, Illinois

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