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The Judicial Department comes home in its effects to every man's fireside: it passes on his property, his reputation, his life, his all.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “The Judicial Department comes home in its effects to every man's fireside: it passes on his property, his reputation…”
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Beveridge emphasizes the profound impact of the judicial system on individual lives and property rights.
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In the development of John Marshall as well as of his great ultimate antagonist, Thomas Jefferson, during the formative decade which we are now to consider, the influence of the French Revolution must never be forgotten.
The genius of the Constitution, and the opinions of the people of the United States, cannot be overruled by those who administer the Government.
The passions of men stimulate them to avail themselves of the weakness of others.
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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