Grateful as posterity must be for this inestimable gift of great human enterprise, yet even Madison's careful journal fills one with the deepest regret that this wonderful debate, which lasted for nearly four months between men of no ordinary ability, could not have been preserved to the world.
Beck reflects on the regret of not having a complete record of the debates that shaped the nation.
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It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
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.
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
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