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The reader will forgive me, I hope, for dwelling on these 1872 opinions of justices whose names we barely remember. The confrontation was so deep and so wrenching for the history of the Constitution that these conflicts have taken on epic proportions.
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The reader will forgive me for dwelling on these 1872 opinions ; the confrontation was so deep for the history of the Constitution that these conflicts have taken on epic proportions.