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A judge would be held to higher official purity, and an executive officer to a stricter observance of the letter of the law.
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Sherman explains that different officials are held to varying standards of conduct.
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Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
He took strong ground against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and in 1859 was a competitor with me for the position of speaker, but withdrew in my favor after the first ballot.
Resolved, That the people who constitute the supreme power in the United States, should guard with jealous care the rights of the several states, as independent governments.
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
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