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The Supreme court ... have rendered the constitution the sport of legal ingenuity....
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “The Supreme court ... have rendered the constitution the sport of legal ingenuity....”
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Beveridge critiques the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution, suggesting it has become overly flexible.
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Washington was the soul of the American cause.
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....
It could borrow money, but could not levy taxes or impose duties to pay the debt.
Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.
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