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In America, the President, who is merely the Executive of the legislative will, continues for his prescribed term, though he may have wholly lost the confidence of the representatives of the people in Congress.
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Beck illustrates the difference in executive power between the U.S. and other countries regarding confidence votes.
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That vision will remain with them as long, and no longer, as there is in their hearts a conscious and willing acquiescence in its wisdom and justice.
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
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.
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
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