The American people, he asserts, "must judge exclusively for themselves how far they will or ought to go in their efforts to acquire new rights or establish new principles.
Albert Beveridge: “The American people, he asserts, "must judge exclusively for themselves how far they will or ought to go in their…”
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Beveridge asserts that the American people must have the ultimate authority in deciding their rights and principles.
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To Marshall reared--the great, the good, the wise; Born for all ages, honored in all skies; His was the fame to mortals rarely given, Begun on earth, but fixed in aim on heaven.
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.
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.
There can be little doubt that a majority of the people did not favor the Constitution when adopted by the Convention and ratified by the States.





