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The Constitution has never greatly bothered any wartime President.

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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Francis Biddle

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Born: May 19, 1886
Died: October 4, 1968 (aged 82)
Bio: Francis Beverley Biddle was an American lawyer and judge who was Attorney General of the United States during World War II and who served as the primary American judge during the postwar Nuremberg trials.
Known for:
  1. In Brief Authority (1962)
  2. The world's best hope (1949)
  3. Mr. Justice Holmes (1942)

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