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He closed by pointing out the inducements to a National judge to act as a tyrannical tool of a partisan administration--the offices with which he could be bribed, the promotions by which he could be rewarded.
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Beveridge warns about the dangers of judicial corruption, detailing how judges could be manipulated by political incentives.
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