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Is it not, to the last degree important, that he should be rendered perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to influence or control him but God and his conscience?
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “Is it not, to the last degree important, that he should be rendered perfectly and completely independent, with nothing…”
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Beveridge argues for the independence of judges, asserting that their only influences should be divine and moral.
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