James Beck: “The jurisprudence of every nation has, with more or less clearness, recognized the existence of certain primal and…”

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.

Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.

That vision will remain with them as long, and no longer, as there is in their hearts a conscious and willing acquiescence in its wisdom and justice.

The greatest and noblest purpose of the Constitution was not alone to hold in nicest equipose the relative powers of the nation and the States, but also to maintain in the scales of justice a true equilibrium between the rights of…