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Your Honours...
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I derive much consolation
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from the fact that my colleague,
Mr Baldwin here,
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has argued the case
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in so able, and so complete a manner
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as to leave me scarcely
anything to say.
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However...
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Why are we here?
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How is it that a simple,
plain property issue
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should now find itself
so ennobled as to be argued
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before the Supreme Court of
the United States of America?
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Do we fear the lower courts, which
found for us, missed the truth?
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Or is it, rather, our great
and consuming fear of civil war,
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that has allowed us to heap symbolism
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upon a simple case
that never asked for it?
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And now would have us disregard truth
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even as it stands before us,
tall and proud as a mountain.
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The truth...in truth, has been driven
from this case like a slave.
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Flogged from court to court,
wretched and destitute.
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And not by any great legal acumen