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Albert Beveridge: Its meaning is locked up from the profane vulgar, and distributed only by the high priests of the temple." (Ib.

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Its meaning is locked up from the profane vulgar, and distributed only by the high priests of the temple." (Ib.
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Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

Editor's note · Context

Beveridge uses a metaphor to describe how the true meaning of the Constitution is kept from the general public.

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