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The want of this is the great deficiency in republican institutions." In the American Government an independent, permanent Judiciary supplied this vital need.
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Beveridge argues that a permanent judiciary is essential for the integrity of republican institutions.
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The genius of the Constitution, and the opinions of the people of the United States, cannot be overruled by those who administer the Government.
But an act universally recognized as criminal, such as robbery, murder, and the like, "is an offense against the community of nations.
I do not think the greatest things have been done for the world by its bookmen.
Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.
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