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England was saved from despotism and an absolute monarchy by the exercise of the power of the House of Commons to refuse supplies except upon conditions that grievances should be redressed . . . .
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Hoar reflects on the historical significance of the House of Commons in preventing tyranny through financial control.
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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.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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