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The attack upon it therefore is a masked battery aimed at the government itself.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “The attack upon it therefore is a masked battery aimed at the government itself.”
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This metaphor illustrates how attacks on the judiciary are indirect assaults on the government itself.
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