Albert Beveridge: “So the infinitely important controversy reached a settlement that, to…”

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So the infinitely important controversy reached a settlement that, to this day, has not been disturbed.

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Beveridge reflects on the lasting impact of a significant legal controversy.

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As the French storm increased, its winds blew ever stronger over the responsive waters of American opinion.

It could borrow money, but could not levy taxes or impose duties to pay the debt.

Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.

Would they abandon their posts as judges, and the interests of millions committed to them, to serve the purposes of a single individual?

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Albert Beveridge: “So the infinitely important controversy reached a settlement that, to this day, has not been disturbed.”