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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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The Alien and Sedition Laws were, they asserted, the beginning of monarchy, the foundation of absolutism.
The passions of men stimulate them to avail themselves of the weakness of others.
Any nation, however, may by statute declare an act to be piratical which is not so by the law of nations; and such an act is punishable only by that particular state and not by other governments.
Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.
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