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Here, at a critical period in our history the great masters of debate discussed vital questions of state--questions that took hold of the life of the republic.
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Adlai Stevenson
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Stevenson reflects on the critical debates that took place at the courthouse, impacting the republic's direction.
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In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil.
And yet history will truly say of him that, while just to other Governments, no President has more firmly maintained the rights of his own.
We strive in vain to look beyond the heights.
I believe that Congress possesses Constitutional power to abolish it.