Albert Beveridge: “And yet he has dropped out of history almost completely.”

So overwhelming was the popular feeling against a strong National Government that, if the Anti-Constitutionalists had concentrated their attack upon this secret purpose of the leading Constitutionalists to make it such by easy stages, it…

Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.

Our children see this and learn to imitate it....

If this goes down, we shall immediately see attempted another act of Congress declaring that the President shall continue in office during life, reserving to another occasion the transfer of the succession to his heirs, and the…