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This separation of the two departments, which causes so much friction, has been emphasized by one feature of the Constitution which again marks its distrust of democracy, namely the fixed tenure of office.
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Beck highlights a constitutional feature that reflects a distrust of democracy through fixed terms for officials.
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It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
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.
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
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