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The Judiciary

{Sydney George Fisher}
Sydney George Fisher

An opinion has been given in the Dist. Court for the city on the question of the constitutionality of the legal tender notes, Hare & Stroud, Union men, in favor of it, and Sharswood, Democrat, against it. Hare's opinion was published in the North American yesterday and today; Sharswood's in The Age, a Democratic paper, this morning. It seems now established in practice that the judges construe the Constitution according to their political feelings, that the Constitution therefore varies with the political majorities on the bench, and that consequently the supreme law wants the essential attribute of stability. -Sydney George Fisher, Diary, February 23, 1864

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