The late alteration of the federal judiciary ... and the recent change in our state constitution, by the establishing of universal suffrage, ... will ... take away all security for property and personal liberty ... and our republican constitution will sink into a mobocracy, the worst of all popular governments.
Beveridge warns that changes in the judiciary and the establishment of universal suffrage could lead to chaos and undermine personal liberties.
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