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The decision that is at this time made will become the permanent exposition of the Constitution; and on a permanent exposition of the Constitution will depend the genius and character of the whole Government.
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Hoar emphasizes the lasting impact of constitutional interpretations on the government.
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It relates to matters more permanent than human life.
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.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
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