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Every word is a word of plain speech, the ordinary meaning of which even the man in the street knows.
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gutenberg.orgJames Beck: “Every word is a word of plain speech, the ordinary meaning of which even the man in the street knows.”
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He emphasizes that the language of the Constitution is straightforward and accessible to the average person.
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It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
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.
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
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