James Beck: “The judiciary, contrary to the common supposition, has no plenary power to nullify unconstitutional laws.”

If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.

Without that vision to restrain each succeeding generation of Americans from the tempting excesses of political power, the American Commonwealth, with its great heterogeneous democracy, would probably perish.

Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.

The tendency of group morality to standardize man--and thus reduce all men to the dead level of an average mediocrity--is one that the law should combat.