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The American Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
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Beck metaphorically describes the American Constitution as lacking stability despite its ambitious framework.
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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.
The tendency of group morality to standardize man--and thus reduce all men to the dead level of an average mediocrity--is one that the law should combat.
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.