This course is much to be preferred to the one proposed of enacting a law once judicially declared to be unconstitutional.
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Message to the Congress Concerning Tax on Net Income of Corporations
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In dealing with the courts, which are the cornerstone of good government, and in which not only the voters, but the nonvoters and nonresidents, have a deep interest as a security for their rights of life, liberty, and property, no matter what the future action of the State may be, it is necessary for the authority which is primarily responsible for its creation to assert in no doubtful tones the necessity for an independent and untrammeled judiciary.
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