“I hope your committee will not permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation.”

—  Franklin D. Roosevelt

Letter to Samuel B. Hill, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14894 (6 July 1935)
1930s

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