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Teddy Roosevelt: “Now the benefits which corporations engaged in interstate trade enjoy under the United States Government are…”

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Now the benefits which corporations engaged in interstate trade enjoy under the United States Government are incalculable; and in respect of such trade the jurisdiction of the Federal Government is supreme when it chooses to exercise it.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He acknowledges the significant benefits corporations receive from the federal government in interstate trade.

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