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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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This is as it should be, for--for better or worse--England and America will play together a great part in the future history of the world.
And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?
Man has danced upon the verge of a social abyss, and, as previously suggested, the dancing has, both in form and in accompanying music, lost its former grace and reverted to the primitive forms of crude vulgarity.
Other nations may not take it so literally, but with our life-long adherence to a written Constitution as a solemn contractual obligation, we do.
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