James Beck: “If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?”

This experience has convinced me that now, more than ever before, there is in England a deep interest in American institutions and their history.

I only mention the subject to suggest that the reader of these lectures will better understand why the American people take the written obligations of the League so seriously and literally.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and just can repair.

The American Constitution has been the classic model for the federated State.