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But this was the very doctrine which the Constitution prohibited from ever being applied in America.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “But this was the very doctrine which the Constitution prohibited from ever being applied in America.”
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Beveridge emphasizes that the Constitution explicitly forbids certain doctrines from being applied in America.
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