When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme …

Alexis de Tocqueville
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When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it, one discovers without difficulty that a more immense judicial power has never been constituted in any people. ✨ Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). Democracy in America, p.141, University of Chicago Press
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