James Beck: “The framers were unwilling to lodge any such power in the Executive, however great his powers in other respects.”

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…

We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.

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

Without that vision to restrain each succeeding generation of Americans from the tempting excesses of political power, the American Commonwealth, with its great heterogeneous democracy, would probably perish.