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The decision by States of the constitutionality of acts of Congress would destroy the Nation, he wrote.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “The decision by States of the constitutionality of acts of Congress would destroy the Nation, he wrote.”
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Beveridge warns that allowing states to decide the constitutionality of federal laws could lead to national disintegration.
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That time, however, is unquestionably arrived, and every oppression now exercised on a helpless people depending on our magnanimity and justice for the preservation of their existence impresses a deep stain on the American character.
In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.
The Experiment, with its foundations laid on universal Suffrage and an unfettered and licentious Press is of too violent a nature for our excitable People.
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