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This law is almost without parallel in severity, peremptoriness, and defiant contempt for National authority.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “This law is almost without parallel in severity, peremptoriness, and defiant contempt for National authority.”
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Beveridge critiques a law for its harshness and disregard for national authority, reflecting on the tensions between state and federal power.
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Washington was the soul of the American cause.
The Constitution of Virginia of 1776 was the basis upon which was built one of the most perfect political machines ever constructed; and this machine in later years came to be Marshall's great antagonist.
Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.
In argument and reasoning he was the equal if not the superior of Madison himself; and his grim personality made the meek one of Madison seem tender in comparison.
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