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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

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

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