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and I respectfully submit that it would be obviously improper for me to sit in judgment on the manner in which the other Justices performed their duties.
I should be unwilling to trouble the Secretary of State with this correspondence, but the principle involved is important, as no one can be expected satisfactorily to perform any public service, unless the scope of his duties and the limit of his responsibility are authoritatively laid down.
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