The validity of a legislative act is to be examined; and the opinion of the highest law tribunal of a state is to be revised: an opinion which carries with it intrinsic evidence of the diligence, of the ability, and the integrity, with which it was formed.
This statement reflects Beveridge's view on the importance of examining legislative acts and the integrity of judicial opinions.
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But an act universally recognized as criminal, such as robbery, murder, and the like, "is an offense against the community of nations.
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.
He has raised the American people in their own esteem, and, if the influence of truth and justice, reason and argument is not lost in Europe, he has raised the consideration of the United States in that quarter of the world....
Had not mobs been the precursors of our own Revolution?
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