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To such base uses can authority be put--with such peril to life and liberty is it invested--when unchecked by Constitutional limitation enforced by fearless and unprejudiced judges!
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Beveridge warns about the dangers of unchecked authority and its impact on liberty and justice.
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There was about him so little of 'the insolence of office,' and so much of the benignity of the man, that his presence always produced ... the most delightful impressions.
These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.
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No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
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