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Why should not Congress as properly declare the decisions of the National courts unconstitutional as that the courts should do the same thing to acts of Congress or laws of States?
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Beveridge argues that Congress should have the power to declare court decisions unconstitutional, similar to judicial review.
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Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.
Had not mobs been the precursors of our own Revolution?
As the French storm increased, its winds blew ever stronger over the responsive waters of American opinion.
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