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Contrary to this, however, the supreme court has said, “Congress cannot vest any portion of the judicial power of the United States except in courts ordained and established by itself.”--Martin vs.
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Mann cites a Supreme Court decision to argue that Congress cannot delegate judicial powers to state courts.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
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