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He maintained that constitutional liberty could never be permanent where two countries with separate legislatures were under one sovereign.
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Hoar reflects on the importance of constitutional liberty in the context of governance.
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Judge Hoar strenuously insisted that the Judges of the newly created Circuit Courts of the United States should be made up of the best lawyers, without Senatorial dictation.
I am afraid they have of late yielded for a time to one strong temptation and missed an opportunity for still greater glory, that never will come back.
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