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The consequence is that again and again we are running the risk of perpetrating the most grotesque errors of judgment, of committing the most serious political blunders, in defiance of American public opinion.
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Beck reflects on the dangers of misjudgment in political decisions against public opinion.
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I only mention the subject to suggest that the reader of these lectures will better understand why the American people take the written obligations of the League so seriously and literally.
It made the judiciary the final conscience of the nation.
It speaks well for the honour of the delegates that although their differences became so acute as to lead at times to bitter expressions, neither side divulged them to the outside public.
I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them.
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