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Perhaps in the whole history of judicial decisions no two opinions were ever so widely read by the mass of people outside the legal profession.
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Blaine reflects on the public's engagement with significant judicial opinions, highlighting their impact beyond legal circles.
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An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
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