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Laelth

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1. No. He would have actually enforced the law.

Reply to Faryn Balyncd (Original post)

Thu Feb 13, 2014, 03:53 PM

Feb 2014

The Sherman Anti-trust Act had been the law for many years before Theodore Roosevelt became President, but none of his predecessors actually tried to enforce it. Teddy Roosevelt was the first to do so, and he made the country a much more fair and just one through actually enforcing the law. While the law remains on the books, our cowardly Presidents continue to refuse to enforce it to this day.

-Laelth

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