Thus arose the spirit in America, which treated constitutional rights, not so much as special privileges granted by plenary Sovereignty, but as contractual obligations which could be enforced in the Courts against the Sovereign.
Beck describes the American spirit that viewed constitutional rights as enforceable obligations rather than mere privileges granted by authority.
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We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.
Under the American Constitution, they are part of the fundamental law, and, as such, enforceable by judges sworn to defend the integrity of the individual as fully as the integrity of the State.
It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
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