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It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does....
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Beck expresses his astonishment at the near perfection of the Constitution despite its flaws.
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Under the American Constitution, they are part of the fundamental law, and, as such, enforceable by judges sworn to defend the integrity of the individual as fully as the integrity of the State.
We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
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!
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