Roosevelt's public program extended well beyond naval policy. It included the Antiquities Act, creation of the Forest Service, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Meat Inspection Act. The discussion also points to Swift and Company v. United States, where the Supreme Court upheld federal authority under the Commerce Clause to regulate monopolistic activity affecting commerce. These measures place his support for sea power within the wider domestic agenda of his presidency.
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Roosevelt's conservation and federal-regulation agenda
A compact survey of conservation, food and meat regulation, and monopoly law places Roosevelt's naval advocacy inside a much wider reform program.