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This view as to the limitation of government and the denial of its omnipotence was powerfully accentuated in America by the very conditions of its colonization.
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Beck discusses how American colonization conditions influenced the limitation of government power.
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We have been trained for nearly a century and a half to measure the validity and obligations of laws and executive acts in Courts of Justice and to apply the plain import of the Constitution.
Again the words of Washington suggest themselves: "If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?
My principal purpose in these lectures is to deepen the interest of this great nation in one of the very greatest and far-reaching achievements of our common race.
I do so, because it has a direct bearing on the decay of the spirit of constitutionalism both in America and elsewhere.
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