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The article of the constitution under consideration closes with an idea, which strongly supports my construction.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “The article of the constitution under consideration closes with an idea, which strongly supports my construction.”
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Beveridge argues that a specific constitutional article supports his interpretation of judicial authority.
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He has raised the American people in their own esteem, and, if the influence of truth and justice, reason and argument is not lost in Europe, he has raised the consideration of the United States in that quarter of the world....
Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.
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