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Albert Beveridge: “Why should not the National Judiciary be made answerable to the people?”

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Why should not the National Judiciary be made answerable to the people?
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Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

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Beveridge questions the accountability of the National Judiciary to the public.

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