That is to say, when the Constitution conferred upon the Supreme Court original jurisdiction in specified cases, it thereby excluded all others--denied to Congress the power to add to the jurisdiction thus affirmatively granted.
Beveridge emphasizes the limitations of the Supreme Court's jurisdiction as defined by the Constitution.
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Washington was the soul of the American cause.
Had not mobs been the precursors of our own Revolution?
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