For the same reason, the dual system of government has been profoundly modified by the great elemental forces of our mechanical age, so that the scales, which try to hold in nice equipoise the Federal Government on the one hand and the States on the other, have been greatly disturbed.
Beck explains how modern forces have altered the balance of power between federal and state governments.
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If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
That vision still remains as an ideal with the American people and still leads them to ever-higher achievements, for in all the mad changes of a frenzied hour, they have not yet lost faith in or love for the Constitution of the Fathers!
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.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
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