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Teddy Roosevelt: “It should be so amended as to forbid only the kind of combination which does harm to the general public, such amendment…”

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It should be so amended as to forbid only the kind of combination which does harm to the general public, such amendment to be accompanied by, or to be an incident of, a grant of supervisory power to the Government over these big concerns engaged in interstate business.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt proposes amendments to antitrust laws to focus on harmful combinations while granting government oversight.

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