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While they had created a central government for certain specified purposes, they yet regarded themselves as sovereign nations, and their representatives in the Senate were, in a sense, their ambassadors.
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Beck describes the perception of states as sovereign entities within the federal system.
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Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
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.
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