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Calvin Coolidge: “This act, in my opinion, is so framed as to undertake to take away and limit the constitutional authority of the…”

On the recordMay 17, 1928
This act, in my opinion, is so framed as to undertake to take away and limit the constitutional authority of the President to make appointments.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval a Bill to Provide for the Coordination of Public Health...

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