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That this court dares not usurp power is most true.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “That this court dares not usurp power is most true.”
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Beveridge emphasizes the importance of judicial restraint and the limits of judicial power.
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No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
There was about him so little of 'the insolence of office,' and so much of the benignity of the man, that his presence always produced ... the most delightful impressions.
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