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When this Nation was created, such a thing as a modern corporation not only did not exist, but could not be imagined.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “When this Nation was created, such a thing as a modern corporation not only did not exist, but could not be imagined.”
Editor's note · Context
Roosevelt notes the historical context of corporations, highlighting their absence at the nation's founding.
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