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Teddy Roosevelt: “All great business concerns are engaged in interstate commerce, and it was beyond question the intention of the founders…”

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All great business concerns are engaged in interstate commerce, and it was beyond question the intention of the founders of our Government that interstate commerce in all its branches and aspects should be under national and not State control.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt emphasizes the founders' intention for national control over interstate commerce.

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