Therefore, in my judgment, all corporations doing an interstate business, and this means the great majority of the largest corporations, should be held accountable to the Federal Government, because their accountability should be coextensive with their field of action.
Roosevelt argues that large corporations should be accountable to the federal government due to their interstate operations.
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