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The framers, however, did not sufficiently reckon with the mechanical changes in society that were then beginning.
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gutenberg.orgThe framers, however, did not sufficiently reckon with the mechanical changes in society that were then beginning.
Beck critiques the framers for not fully considering societal changes impacting governance.
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That vision still remains as an ideal with the American people and still leads them to ever-higher achievements, for in all the mad changes of a frenzied hour, they have not yet lost faith in or love for the Constitution of the Fathers!
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.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.