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In the greater sphere of social life, we find the same revolt against the institutions which have the sanction of the past.
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Beck discusses the societal shifts challenging established institutions and traditions.
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I do so, because it has a direct bearing on the decay of the spirit of constitutionalism both in America and elsewhere.
To remove those causes of estrangement, to avoid a fateful catastrophe, in other words, to bring about a cordial understanding with America, the first condition must be an understanding of America.
It is indeed passing strange that in these days of cheap books and free education, America should be almost a 'terra incognita,' that we should know next to nothing of American history, of the American Constitution, of American practical…
It made the judiciary the final conscience of the nation.
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