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The extraordinary thing was the pretext he devised for rendering that opinion--a pretext which, it cannot be too often recalled, had been unheard of and unsuspected hitherto.
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This quote emphasizes the unprecedented nature of the reasoning Marshall used in his opinion, as noted by Beveridge.
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