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Teddy Roosevelt: “They fail to give to the National Government sufficiently ample power, through United States courts and by the use of…”

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They fail to give to the National Government sufficiently ample power, through United States courts and by the use of the Army and Navy, to protect aliens in the rights secured to them under solemn treaties which are the law of the land.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt points out that current laws do not adequately protect aliens' rights under treaties.

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