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Is there in this day and generation a spirit of lawlessness greater or different than that that has always characterized human society?
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Beck questions whether the current era exhibits a heightened spirit of lawlessness compared to historical norms.
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Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
Under the American Constitution, they are part of the fundamental law, and, as such, enforceable by judges sworn to defend the integrity of the individual as fully as the integrity of the State.
It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
The greatest and noblest purpose of the Constitution was not alone to hold in nicest equipose the relative powers of the nation and the States, but also to maintain in the scales of justice a true equilibrium between the rights of…
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