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In this fundamental struggle of antagonistic theories, the practical advantage for the hour was overwhelmingly with those who resisted the Constitution.
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Here, Beveridge discusses the prevailing advantage of those opposing the Constitution during a critical ideological struggle.
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I do not think the greatest things have been done for the world by its bookmen.
In argument and reasoning he was the equal if not the superior of Madison himself; and his grim personality made the meek one of Madison seem tender in comparison.
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.
Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.
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