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Albert Beveridge: This conflict between the Supreme Court of the United States and the Court of Appeals of Virginia opened another phase…

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This conflict between the Supreme Court of the United States and the Court of Appeals of Virginia opened another phase of that fundamental struggle which war was to decide--a fact without knowledge of which this phase of American Constitutional history is colorless.
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Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

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Beveridge discusses the conflict between the Supreme Court and Virginia's Court of Appeals as a pivotal moment in American Constitutional history.

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