James Beck: “The American Constitution has been the classic model for the federated State.”

If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.

It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.

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…

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