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The experience of a century and a quarter has shown that while the anchor may at times drag, yet it measurably holds the ship of state to its ancient moorings.
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Beck argues that the Constitution has managed to maintain its foundational principles despite challenges.
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It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
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.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
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