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Quote from Rexford Tugwell,


"To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them."


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Rexford Tugwell (more quotes by Rexford Tugwell or books by/about Rexford Tugwell)


(1891-1979) American agricultural economist, served in FDR's administration, one of the chief intellectual contributors to the New Deal, director of the New York City Planning Commission, Governor of Puerto Rico, and a professor at various universities.

Date:

1968

Source:

quoted by Roger Pilon, Restoring Constitutional Government, CATO’S LETTER #9, p. 3, published by the Cato Institute (1995).

Categories:

Constitution, Corruption, Jurisdiction, Socialism, Usurpation, Welfare

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