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Teddy Roosevelt: “The power of the Congress to regulate interstate commerce is an absolute and unqualified grant, and without limitations…”

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The power of the Congress to regulate interstate commerce is an absolute and unqualified grant, and without limitations other than those prescribed by the Constitution.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt asserts the Congress's constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce without limitations.

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