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Responsibility to what? to the will of the Legislature? can there be no responsibility, unless your Judges shall be removable at pleasure? will nothing short of this satisfy gentlemen?
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Beveridge argues that true judicial responsibility cannot exist if judges are subject to removal by the legislature at will.
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