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II.) If stated in the vernacular of the present day, this doleful opinion of Marshall would read: "Nothing, I believe, more debases or pollutes the human mind than partisan politics.
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Beveridge paraphrases Marshall's critical view on the effects of partisan politics on the human mind.
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